Word: boutin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most interesting member of the ring, however, was hardly more than a phantasm of pseudonyms: Von Houry / Herzog / Cassou / Hoffman / Raynal / Dory-Boutin. Actually he was a man named Elmyr de Hory, the artist responsible for counterfeiting the countless drawings, gouaches, watercolors and oils sold as Picassos, Matisses, Modiglianis, Braques, Derains, Monets, Légers, Dufys, Renoirs, Vlamincks and Van Dongens. Fake! is basically Elmyr de Hory's story as told to Novelist Clifford Irving (The Valley, The 38th Floor). It is an exuberant collage of skillful innuendo, succulent gossip, bitchery and elusive truths...
...Anti" Votes. On election eve, Johnson Campaign Manager Bernard Boutin declared that anything under 40% of the vote would be a defeat for McCar thy-figuring that he had chosen an unattainable figure. He had not. The following night, an anguished Boutin sat in Johnson's Manchester headquarters, reluctant to put through the telephone call that White House Aide Marvin Watson was waiting for in Washington. The picture would improve, Boutin kept saying, as soon as the results came in from Berlin. McCarthy carried Berlin. By 10:40 p.m., one of the two bars that had been...
...State Johnson backers have only seven weeks to organize a write-in campaign. The New Hampshire write-in campaign for Johnson took seven months to put into operation according to Bernard I. Boutin; Granite State campaign director...
...Boutin, now Johnson's campaign chairman, sees apathy as the chief problem in attempting a write-in effort for an incumbent president. To combat apathy and to "educate the electorate," Boutin came up with the pledge card (which pledges the voter to "support President LBJ." It would "give the individual voter a personal identification with the President...and give us a good listing of the real Democratic voters in the State," Boutin explained...
...obtain the pledges, Boutin decided personal contact "in a way never seen before" was needed. The neighborhood coordinators who are responsible for visiting 35 to 50 families each were conceived to meet the need. In addition to getting pledges, they are "responsible to see that the Democratic and Independent voters in this area go to the polls," will provide transportation to the polls, and a babysitting service...