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Hands-Off Bill is the brainchild of Lloyd Martin, 42, an ex-policeman who headed the sexually-exploited-child unit of the Los Angeles police department. Using the voice of a small boy, Bill talks to children on a 30-minute audio tape constructed in the form of a radio show. The tape, along with a workbook, is sold for home...
...change every once in a while. But George V. Higgins in his "Literary Life" column in The Boston Globe was one of the few people who not only prasied the new look, but admired the courage it took to make the change Most other commentators pelted Lapham and his brainchild with the verbal equivalent of rotten fruit. The Crimson editor who suggested this story fully expected that I would "trash" the new magazine, and after reading Lapham's bombastic manifestoes, I was fully prepared...
...Endowment for Divestiture was the brainchild of SASC which suggested the idea to a group of about 40 seniors, many of whom had been active in campus political organizations the semester before. The newly formed Undergraduate Council supported the plan, and voted to act as administrator of the fund...
HABS is the brainchild of Philadelphia Architect Charles E. Peterson, 77. In 1933, Peterson suggested it to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, partly as a way to provide jobs for unemployed architects, draftsmen and photographers. Ickes immediately accepted the proposal, and in two weeks' time 1,200 such professionals were hired for six months under the auspices of the New Deal's Civil Works Administration...
...first controversy involved the radical keel of the leading foreign challenger, Australia II. The brainchild of ebullient Australian Designer Ben Lexcen, the keel has provided Newport with gossip, speculation and creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...