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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Amid the welter of toll-free 800 numbers, this one certainly stood out. Callers to 1-800-WANT-POT got exactly what they wanted -- $50 envelopes containing one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana delivered by bicycle to Manhattan street corners. The service was allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: From One Joint To Another | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

And yet this vast variety is regarded by its recipients with ambivalence, not to say schizophrenia. The plain fact is that Americans love the stuff as much as they hate it. Last year 92 million Americans responded to direct- market pitches, a 60% jump in just six years. According to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Mail: Read This!!!!!!!! | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Some trade or offer names for rent but otherwise keep information about their customers under tight wraps. Lands' End offers no information about individuals when it passes on their names. "We are fanatical about keeping information about customers in the office," says Michael Atkin, the company's marketing vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Mail: Read This!!!!!!!! | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Comes With Dessert | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Just so. Until last week, Freedom was the nation's fourth largest black- owned banking company, with assets of $121 million. Founded in 1964 by a group headed by the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Freedom was formed with a special mission: to serve the churches, businesses and homeowners in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom: Not Just Another Bank | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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