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...then set to work preparing for 1962. Like a military commander, he issued attack programs that scheduled a calendar of activities, organized "commando'' groups of workers assigned to fund raising, advertising and "reregistering" Democrats. The Republicans contracted early for most of the state's best billboard space, leaving the Democrats pretty much behind the bushes. All that remained was to select their Republican candidates-and Organizer Bellmon was the obvious choice for Governor...
Lined up against Chairman Weesner and four fellow Bon Ami officers was a formidable coalition: Tel-A-Sign Inc.. a Chicago billboard manufacturer which last month bought 16.5% (88,703 shares) of Bon Ami's outstanding stock, plus two former Bon Ami employees-ex-Vice President Olen Webb, 40. and his wife Pat, 44. who for more than ten years was Weesner's $12,000-a-year private secretary. Guided by Tel-A-Sign's largest stockholder. Attorney Roy Cohn, 35. onetime Boy Friday to the late Senator Joe McCarthy, the coalition charged that Weesner...
...ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign, the poster girl...
About the same time, California's billboard jungle began to bloom with Rafferty signs, and thousands of brochures announced "California schools need the fourth R-Rafferty.'' To Cure Slobbism. Candidate Rafferty's personal formula for curing "slobbism" and the loss of U.S. scientific leadership to "a race of lash-driven atheistic peasants" covered a wide spectrum. He would eliminate fuzzily named "social studies" or "language arts" courses and reinstate plain names, such as history, geography and English. He proposed courses on Communism and free enterprise, and reinstatement of the singing of Columbia...
Whatever the cause of the blasts, they found echoes in the U.S. In its unique way, Tin Pan Alley was joining in the protest against the Wall. Listed by Billboard as one of the "Hot 100" was a rock 'n' roll ditty titled West of the Wall (Big-top Records). Sample lyrics...