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8th of April 1995 News
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A Precocious Sitcom Freshman
Date: 09 April 1995
By Andy Meisler
Andy Meisler
YEARS BEFORE THEY submit their first script, most aspiring television-sitcom writers are already steeped in the genre. Thousands of hours of television watching has burned hundreds of plot lines and characters into their brains. They are fluent in the language of sight gags and snappy comebacks, teasers and tag lines, sly topical references and quick moral lessons. And so, such aspirants may think themselves well qualified to write and even produce their own half-hour comedies -- until they meet Paul Simms. Mr. Simms is the writer, creator and executive producer of "News Radio," the new NBC sitcom that had its premiere in March and has been extended by the network for at least six more episodes on Tuesday nights at 8:30. A tall, thin graduate of Harvard, he is an American who was raised in third-world countries. Deprived of early exposure to "I Love Lucy," "The Brady Bunch" -- indeed to most of the sitcom canon -- Mr. Simms seems to have had to depend for inspiration primarily on the real world, including his own quasi-immigrant experiences.
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Trading Places
Date: 09 April 1995
By Holly Brubach
Holly Brubach
This latest round of fashion shows, which began in Milan five weeks ago and ended here in New York on Friday, will go down in history as the season of insurrections. First there were the walkouts staged by the French press, who had agreed to leave any show starting more than 30 minutes late. (One editor last season counted seven and a half hours' waiting time in a single day.) Then there was the dispute at Claude Montana between a TV cameraman and a bouncer, ending in fisticuffs and prompting the photographers to boycott the show. As for those of us less inclined to public protest, who could blame us if, in those idle moments when we were waiting for the lights to dim, we succumbed to fantasies of what would happen if we turned the tables. . . .
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Layoffs at Daily Racing Form
Date: 08 April 1995
By Joe Sharkey
Joe Sharkey
The thoroughbred horse-racing industry is shrinking, and so is the work force at The Daily Racing Form. The paper is laying off between 50 and 80 pressmen, drivers and clerical staff at its printing plant here. The venerable racing sheet is consolidating its printing operations.
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OUT OF ORDER;
Open Your Eyes and Read All About It!
Date: 09 April 1995
By David Bouchier
David Bouchier
IF you want to learn about a community read the local newspaper. I have followed this advice for years, and what I have learned about my community is not reassuring. The town seems normal enough. But judging by the tantalizing hints that appear in the newspapers, my neighbors live strange and secret lives.
The most interesting reports come off the police blotter and are written in archaic language, as if the officers had been trained in Shakespearean rather than American English. "A female, 24, reported that her 24-year-old named fiance did enter and remain in her parents home, where she also resides, after he had been told not to enter."
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A Century of 'the Funnies'
Date: 09 April 1995
Humbly, we note that this is the centennial year of an institution known to readers of other newspapers as the comics. The exact day a newspaper first published this indigenous American blend of art and story is in dispute, but it was 1895 in The World, Joseph Pulitzer's New York daily, and the comic was a street urchin called "The Yellow Kid." It proved so popular that William Randolph Hearst hired the artist away to draw the kid for The Journal. Pulitzer then signed another artist to continue the character in The World.
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AMERITECH APPROVED ON OPENING OF PHONE MARKET
Date: 08 April 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Ameritech Corporation received approval from Illinois regulators yesterday to open up its residential phone market, putting the regional Bell company a step closer in its plan to offer long-distance telephone service. The approval follows an announcement on Monday that the Justice Department had given its blessing to the plan. Ameritech will be allowed to offer long-distance service on a trial basis in the Chicago and Grand Rapids, Mich., areas if it opens its local markets to competition. As part of its approval yesterday, the Illinois Commerce Commission said Ameritech must make it easier for competitors to buy access to its local phone network. The plan still requires approval from a Federal judge.
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ARCADIAN PARTNERS SHARES RISE AS BID IS INCREASED
Date: 08 April 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The units of Arcadian Partners L.P. rose 6 percent yesterday after the closely held Arcadian Corporation improved its offer to $775 million for the balance of the partnership. The Arcadian Corporation raised its offer to $29 a unit, from $26, in cash and preferred stock for the preference units of Arcadian Partners it did not already own. Arcadian Partners' units closed up $1.375, at $26, on the New York Stock Exchange. The Arcadian Corporation is a closely held Memphis-based producer and marketer of nitrogen fertilizers. It will offer $14.50 in cash and 0.853 of a preferred share, valued at $14.50, for each Arcadian Partners unit.
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KIMBERLY-CLARK TO TAKE A CHARGE OF $27 MILLION
Date: 08 April 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Kimberly-Clark Corporation said yesterday that it would take a first-quarter charge of about $27 million, or 17 cents a share, because of the devaluation and subsequent fall of the Mexican peso. The company will take the charge because of the unfavorable exchange of dollar-denominated liabilities of its Mexican subsidiary into pesos. It is the second consecutive quarter the Dallas-based company will take a peso-related charge. The company, which makes Kleenex tissue and Huggies diapers, owns 43 percent of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico S.A. The peso, which was devalued in December, hit an all-time low against the dollar on March 9. Since then, though, it has increased 19 percent. In the fourth quarter of 1994, Kimberly-Clark took a charge of $39 million, or 24 cents a share.
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AMR AGREES TO SELL 12 WIDE-BODIED JETS TO FEDEX
Date: 08 April 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The AMR Corporation has agreed to sell 12 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 wide-bodied jets to the Federal Express Corporation. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Fort Worth-based airline also has the option to sell the remaining seven MD-11 jetliners in its fleet to the air-freight carrier. Federal Express also agreed to buy maintenance services from AMR for six years for its fleet, beginning with the Boeing Company 727's, allowing AMR to keep machinists on staff. American will deliver the airplanes to Fedex between January 1996 and October 1999. AMR's shares rose $1.25 yesterday, to $68.125, on the New York Stock Exchange.
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International Briefs; McDonnell Douglas Gets Order for Dutch Copters
Date: 08 April 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The McDonnell Douglas Corporation beat a French-German venture yesterday for a Dutch military helicopter order valued at $845 million. The Government chose an upgraded version of the Apache attack helicopter, flown by the United States Army during the Persian Gulf war, over the prototype Tiger, produced by Eurocopter, which is 60 percent owned by Aerospatiale of France and 40 percent by Daimler-Benz Aerospace of Germany.
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