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  3. (Nov. 05, 1990) Died:Tom Carvel
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990    
  7. Nov. 05, 1990  Reagan Memoirs                        
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 99
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  15. <p>     DIED. Tom Carvel, 84, who parlayed a $15 loan from his
  16. wife-to-be into a megabucks ice-cream company; in Pine Plains,
  17. N.Y. Launching his venture from a roadside stand in 1934,
  18. Carvel turned it into a 700-store chain. Along the way he
  19. became widely known for the folksy radio and television
  20. commercials he narrated in a voice as rough as gravel.
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