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...modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining dopes who take such matters seriously. Indeed, if there is any point at all in watching...
...going for him: the A's had a small but shrewd scouting crew, and Finley himself soon showed an uncanny instinct for spotting young talent. He was tireless in pursuit of prospects. In 1962 he struck one of baseball's alltime bargains by paying only $500 to sign Shortstop Bert Campaneris, then a catcher for a team in Cuba. Two years later Finley heard about a kid pitcher from Hertford, N.C., who had peppered his foot with shotgun pellets in a hunting accident. Finley descended upon Hertford, stalked the youngster, captured him with a $75,000 bonus and sent...
...year when women are trying valiantly to assert themselves as intelligent leaders of society, political thinkers, educational reformers, etc., I find it disheartening to discover once more a TIME cover depicting the beautifully brainless. Why don't you put Miss America on your next cover and install Bert Parks on your board of directors? Okeydoke, artichoke...
...Bert Parks Greenwich, Conn...
...payoff system was simple. Civic Affairs Director Wilbur M. Bennett, who has not been indicted, would submit the names of likely recipients to Bert Cross, who was chief executive officer from 1963 to 1970. Cross approved each gift. Hansen kept the cash in an office safe and then gave the money to Bennett, who passed it on to the approved candidates or their emissaries. When Heltzer succeeded Cross in 1970, he carried on the practice. He was under the impression, he testified earlier, that the money came from private contributions by 3M executives. "I know I should have suspected that...