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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reformers and movie censorship ("Upon what kind of filth do these our censors feed, that they have become so pure?"). Though he draws on a subject file of 6,000 cross-indexed listings for his conversational ploys, Gibson never uses a script, a Teleprompter or an "idiot card," even ad-libs his commercials. He makes it a jaunty habit to breeze into the radio studio scant seconds before air time, hits his chair talking...
...reach by putting up more than $1,000,000 to buy the 52-year-old Economist, a bustling biweekly whose Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long ago by the late Colonel Bertie McCormick and still pushed by the Tribune...
...over as chairman of the C. & O., he cashed in on the war-brought prosperity of the railroads. Flush with millions, he began the bitter attacks on the railroad industry that marked his stormy career from then on, launched a publicity campaign whose high point was the famous newspaper ad that said: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains-but you can't." He lashed out fiercely at "goddam bankers" (his favorite phrase) for their control of the railroads, set himself up as the champion of the people in a crusade to revitalize U.S. railroads...
...correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone (e.g., whiskies, tobacco, patent medicines, coffee, tea) and refuses to run any ad containing the abbreviation "Xmas...
...three occupants of the room, James Lawrence, III '58 and Daniel E. Singer '58, were asleep in the ad-joining room when the arrest was made. They awakened to discover four policemen in their living room talking to a man the police identified as a burglar. The stranger at this point claimed he had been invited up by a third roommate, who was absent. When located, George D. Krumbhaar, Jr. '58, the absent roommate, disclaimed any knowledge of the visitor...