Word: billboarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dump City Council President Abe Stark, a kindly but ineffectual Brooklyn haberdasher whose main claims to fame are that he 1) sold suits to De Sapio ($75 to $90), and 2) gave a free set of duds to every ballplayer who hit his advertising billboard in the old Ebbets Field. To replace Stark, nominate the clean-up-minded deputy mayor-Felt...
...cities and villages of Ghana and Nigeria, his name leaped forth from billboard, newspaper and radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle...
...stand, Nixon is relaxed and meticulous. He is more practiced than Kennedy at endorsing all the local politicians, quick to freshen up his text with an impromptu reference (a Democratic campaign billboard in Pennsylvania last week caught his eye and gave him a handy introduction to a speech). Among the throngs of greeters (ably abetted by his constant companion, Pat Nixon), he is friendly and easy, shaking as many hands as are offered, stopping to chat frequently. Old folks, invalids and children get special attention. Nixon is always dignified and cool-he has never been caught in a really embarrassing...
...settled on ice cream, made it attractive by doubling the butterfat content, using natural flavors, serving heaping cones. In 1929 he opened his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass., lost money -but continued to add new ice-cream flavors and open ice-cream stands. He won the public with billboard ads of his son and daughter holding big cones and saying: "We love our daddy's ice cream...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...