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Chicago's United America Bank needed no such carny-barker approach to create a run on the bank. To celebrate the firm's tenth anniversary, officials decided to forgo the standard promotional hoopla and instead advertised a money sale. Each of the first 35 customers in line last Wednesday morning got to purchase a $100 bill for $80. There were similar sales of descending denominations capped by the sale of 1,800 silver dollars at half price...
...John, a barker outside a San Francisco flesh club called the Garden of Eden, handed out prurient postcards to Saturday-night strollers. Near by, a group of 13 Levi's-clad preachers picketed the club and passed out leaflets which read "Topless! Bottomless! Nothingness!" The picketers looked like typical Jesus freaks, except that four of them were wearing skullcaps and one carried a placard proclaiming "Jesus the Messiah Has Come...
Four Springfield pitchers have signed pro contracts in the last two years, and while this year's staff isn't particularly flashy, it has been consistent. The Crimson will face Burt Barker, a left-hander with a 4-0 record and an E.R.A. of 1.94. Last week Barker beat B.C., 3-2, two days after the Eagles had upset the Crimson. Tom O'Neill will start for Harvard...
Miss USA Beauty Pageant. Miss USA 1972 will be crowned in Puerto Rico from among 51 contestants. Bob Barker is emcee, while judges include Ed Sullivan, Walt Frazier, Jacqueline Susann, and Cleveland Amory. 10, May 20, Chan...
...creature, in his black slacks and black dueling shirt; every time a dramatic gesture was forthcoming, he took a gun fighter's stance. His delivery was like that of a turbid Shakespearian actor, Edwin Booth, perhaps, at the Ford Theater. Barnum and Bailey could have found a better barker. Who sold this guy to Yevtushenko, I don't know and why Yevtushenko not only let him butcher the lyrics but also appeared to approve of the fallen, uneven slices is beyond poetic sensibility. Nonetheless, Barry Boys was the specialite de la maison. After he had finished his reading. Yevtushenko read...