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...ultimate control over all channels, and that licenses would be granted according to the standard of "public interest, convenience, or necessity." There would be no censorship, and no provision for guaranteed educational airtime or wavelengths. The Coolidge era was hitting its final swing, with advertising its new religion; Bruce Barton wrote of Jesus as the "founder of modern business." Gradually, "public service" ballyhoo was revealed as lip-service to informed opinion. Even sentimental traditions faltered; the "Silent Night" which allowed listeners to hear famous distant stations without local interference; uninterrupted nighttime broadcasting; flexible coverage of news events...
Jessica (Zohra Lampert) has just been released from a mental institution. She and her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) opt out of the New York scene for a creaky Connecticut retreat, and find that they have acquired not only the house but its tenants of yesteryear. Duncan initially dismisses the weird noises and the hostility of the townfolk, every man jack of them with a scar on his neck. And Jessica begins to wonder if it isn't all in her mind. That overheated young hippie Emily (Mariclare Costello) who was living in the house, for instance. Surely...
...what he saw. He was, in brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
Each year, the final totals are hard to determine to any large degree of accuracy because of lapses in recording results, and this led Barton to think that a tie was possible in such a close race...
There were discrepancies even as late as June 1 this year. While Barton, Wilson and Winthrop House athletic secretary Joe Stiles first arrived at a Winthrop victory margin of 20 points, inaccuracies discovered in recording competition held last fall eventually narrowed the gap to five...