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DIED. James Conway, 78, co-founder of Mister Softee ice cream, cherished mobile purveyor of frozen delights; in Ocean City, N.J. Such was the ardor for the white trucks that when New York City officials tried to ban the familiar--to some, cloying--jingle, a public outcry forced them to back down. Launched in 1956, when Conway and his brother William drove a truck around Philadelphia giving away green ice cream on St. Patrick's Day, the company now has 600 trucks in 15 states...
Today not much is left of the pipeline company that Lay, the preacher's son from Missouri, turned into a high-flying purveyor of wind and water, electricity and energy emissions and, ultimately, hot air. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett now owns the Big E's biggest pipeline. Texan T. Boone Pickens has replaced Enron as the nation's biggest energy trader. A holding company that operated Enron's international assets last week sold off 15 pipelines and power plants, from Bolivia to Turkey...
...There's been a huge surge in the business for roller luggage in the last two years," says Peter Cobb, a vice president and co-founder of eBags.com an online luggage purveyor that averages 170,000 hits a day. "They used to be only for business trips, but now people are using them as briefcases every day, and they're buying them like fashion items, every six months...
Your Initials, Please The easiest way to identify luggage on the claim carousel is still old-fashioned initials. The idea of customizing travel gear started in France in 1854, when Louis Vuitton, a purveyor of steamer trunks, began hand-painting initials on its goods. Gaston-Louis, a grandson of Vuitton's founder, was obsessed with the trend of customization, particularly the use of stickers as a way of identifying a trunk's journey around the world. Today Louis Vuitton still offers personalization services--including hand-painting initials, stripes and crests in a choice of 15 colors...
...that's starting to change, spurred in part by hospitals' trying to attract well-heeled customers with generous health insurance. Last month MedAssets, a group purchaser for 2,400 hospitals, signed a contract with United Natural Foods, the nation's largest purveyor of organic products. And two months ago, Health Care Without Harm noharm.org launched a Healthy Food in Health Care pledge campaign for consumers to enlist their hospitals. So far, 47 medical centers have signed on to push for chemical-free food. Says Marie Kulick of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, author of a study on hospital...