Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco the youthful (ten years old) advertising firm of Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli fearlessly accepted a new account: for a 15% fee, G.B.& B. agreed to handle all of the Democratic Party's advertising and pressagentry during the 1960 national campaign. The California firm's acceptance marked the end of a long search by National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler, who had already been turned down by major ad agencies in Manhattan -because, so he said, they were fearful of offending big Republican customers...
...been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill a hole right down through the earth's crust to its hidden interior...
Primordial Face. Cuss I has already drilled sample wells off California in water 1,500 ft. deep. Drilling in three miles of water would be harder, but Geologist Bascom thinks it can be done. So do the Russians, who claim to have drilling equipment just as good, and are apparently trying to beat AMSOC to the Moho...
Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...
...conviction of Bascom Giles is only the beginning of the scandals trouble for Texas politicians. So far, 21 people, including Democratic Congressman John J. Bell, have been indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...