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IN a brief interview published
in a recent Fortune magazine,
Todd Sloane, a marketing
executive with Publishers
Clearinghouse (the $10 mil-
lion sweepstakes people) was
asked whether entrants worry
that the PCH prize patrol
can't find them if'they win:
“We get thousands af calls
from entrants warning us their
house is hard to get to (or)
they'll be at Unele Jack’s,

- whatever,”

In a‘poll of Ontario resi-
dents commissioned — by
Global Television and report:
ed by the Toronto Star last
December, it was revealed

* that a majority believe in mir-

acles, although the Star point-
ed out that some respondents’
standards are lower than oth-
ers, such as in one man’s
example of a miracle he had

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deal on a power tool that |
wanted fora long dine.”

Carmel, California -- In
defending her decislon to
spend $4,000 to dress up a
rock she found to look like
Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
Patricia Walsh saids “Pin an
ald lady, and Pecan anise
myself doing whatever | like.”

Slr Roger Penrose, a

British math professor who;

has worked with Stephen
Hawking on such toples as
relativity, black holes, and
whether time has a beginning,
has filed a copyright-infringe-

ment lawsuit against the

Kimberly-Clark Corporation,

Penrose maintains the
company copied a pattern he
created la pattern demonstrat-
ing that “a nonrepeating pat-
tern could exist in nature”)

for its Kleenex quilted toilet’:

aper. ;
Penrose added fie doesn’t

‘Vike litigation but, “When it”

comes to the population of
Great ‘Britain being invited by
a multinational to wipe their
bottoms on what appears to
be the work of a Knight of the
Realm, then a last stand must
be taken.”

Philip Morris president
James Morgan, in a lawsuit

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Sunday, July 20, 1897 = Norll Shoro Nows ~ 47

Publishing rampant optimism

pointing out why he belleves
clyarettes are not addictive: “1
love Guim Bears (candy).
and [want Gurint Bears and
[like Gumenl Bears and T eat
Guintil Bears and T don't like
it when ft don't eat my
Gummi Bears, but Pn cer
tainly not addicted to then,”

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Ata recent hearing, the

Ohio State Medical Board
began considering whether to

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discipline ‘Toledo pediatrician
Gary 1, Gladlenx, 43, who
was accused of having sex with
three women during thelr vis-
its to his office,

The board cited a 199]
Aderiean Medteal Assoclation
ruling that physichin-patient
sex ts unethical, but Gladieus
says the ruling doesn't apply
to him because he had sex not
with his patlents but with
their mothers, who had
brought the patients in’ fer
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