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  • Pac Bell Backs Off Telemarketing Plan

    Pacific Bell is backing down from a plan to telemarket its services to customers with unpublished phone numbers.The phone company filed a request with

  • Troubles Not Over for AFP

    American Family Publishers Inc. must have thought it was out of the woods. In March, it settled lawsuits by 31 states and the District of Columbia by

  • EDUCATION: Mercy Offers DM Specialty

    Know someone who aspires to a DM career? If so, show them this: Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, is offering a direct marketing specialty, culminating

  • DM DYNASTIES: Eh, Bob’s Your Father

    REPORTER CALLING Neodata Systems recently was a little confused when the company operator switched him over to Bob Wientzen. Wait a second. How was the

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

  • CATALOG CAPITAL

    Experts agree: It’s difficult to generalize about how publicly traded consumer catalogs are doing on Wall Street. For one thing, direct marketing companies

  • Magazine Circulation-Avant-Garde or Antediluvian

    The economics of magazine circulation haven’t changed much in the last 70 years or so. Subscribers pay in advance for a set number of issues, the publisher

  • National Semiconductor Launches Online Services

    Surprising though it may seem, it took until just last month for one of the world’s leading technology companies to jump on the electronic ordering and

  • The Click-Through War

    Who’s got the better click-through rate on Web banner advertising-Flycast or DoubleClick? And should anyone even care?In March, RelevantKnowledge, Chicago,

  • People

    Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, named Dr. Thomas E. Vasquez president/CEO. John Struck, former president/CEO, will become chairman of Yankelovich