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...literary soft-sell continued into the heydey of radio on such programs as Author Meets the Critics. Television changed all that. A striking early example of the medium's effect on book sales was provided during the late 1950s by Alexander King. An erstwhile adman and former drug addict, he was the author of a scurrilously amusing book of reminiscences titled Mine Enemy Grows Older. Each time King appeared on Jack Paar's show, the sales figures of his book soared...
...easily traced as a mountain stream. Then they flow downward-through eight agencies, such as the Social Rehabilitation Service and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Administration; 20 bureaus, such as the Office of Native American Programs and the National Heart and Lung Institute; and 40 programs, including Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act contracts and the Area Planning and Social Services Programs for the Elderly...
...dawn in order to get to the sets in time to catch the beginning of the day's video taping at 6 a.m. Said Vallely: "I hadn't realized how hard soap-opera actors work." New York Correspondent Mary Cronin, a daytime drama addict from the radio days of Mary Noble and Helen Trent, reported on the battle of the soaps from the networks' point of view. Staff Writer Gina Mallet, who divided her time between the tube and the typewriter in her office, wrote the cover story...
...result many rural communities are often without the services of a doctor and are eager to accept anyone who is remotely qualified. That sometimes leaves them with a doctor who, as one critical observer says, is "a bum, an alcoholic or a drug addict-somebody...
...miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...