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...breakin, a janitor reported that he had found two men who spoke Cuban-style Spanish, dressed as mailmen, in Fielding's waiting room. They explained that they were leaving a suitcase for Fielding; then they left. Fielding later told police that the suitcase, which had disappeared, did not belong...
...mouthing would have been superfluous; advertisers had their own negative ideas. The Charney-Veronis brashness aroused much resentment on Madison Avenue. "The advertising fraternity wanted them to fail," says a New York adman. "Above all, there were a lot of people who thought those two guys did not belong in the magazine business and ought to get out of it." Admits Charney: "Madison Avenue and potential backers had a hard time realizing what Saturday Review was, or should...
...announced next week, the citation for public service by a newspaper-barring a last-minute reversal-will go to the Washington Post for its continuous digging into the Watergate case and related campaign scandals. Certainly the Post deserves credit for its tenacity But the trade knows that personal honors belong to an unlikely trio of relatively junior newsmen, the Post's District of Columbia editor, Barry Sussman, 38, and Reporters Carl Bernstein, 29, and Bob Woodward, 30. None of the three was accustomed to covering stories of national significance, all felt the intense heat of Administration denunciations that threatened...
...consumers. "We are the villains," it said, "because we drive to work in the only transportation system made available by G.M., Ford and Chrysler." The introduction suggested that Americans emulate China's Maoist revolution and find "new methods of distributing the riches of the world, which in fact belong to all human beings, not only to the Rockefellers, Fords, Du Ponts, Mellons, Rothschilds and their like...
...Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks