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  Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

  Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such

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  THE DEL POLITO LETTER

  Postal rate cases usually center on four basic tasks: defining the amount of new revenue needed to ensure break-even operation; tracing back and attributing

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  U.S. Bank Mailing Succeeds Despite Low Response

  Once upon a time there was a direct marketing campaign that didn’t get any response.What-no flurry of telephone calls? No BRCs returned? Nothing.Not that

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  Rapp Collins Tops in Billings

  Rapp Collins Worldwide, with $1.615 billion in billings in 1997, leads the list of top 10 agencies, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s annual

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  Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

  Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

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  Mrs. Butterworth’s hot air balloon starts tour.

  COLUMBUS, OH – Giving new meaning to the term “rise and shine,” Aurora Foods launched the “Breakfast Over America” balloon tour. It features a 30-foot

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  Kemmler’s Law

  Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.

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  Sampling Continues to Stretch Out

  The only thing harder than trying to sum up 1997’s sampling programs in a single story is trying to put a value on the category. Programs can range from

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  Lou Reed Bio on Home Video

  Just months after it aired on PBS, the only documentary of rocker Lou Reed will hit home video on July 28. Fox Lorber is releasing the 75-minute video

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  DEMOGRAPHICS

  Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept