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...came $25,000; the Ford Foundation pledged $40,000. With $112,000 to go, Greenburg got another philanthropic windfall of $55,000. Keeping it secret, he called a mass meeting of businessmen to spring his surprise. "I'll take 5% of what's left," cried a gleeful brewer. In ten minutes channel 9 had a full till...
...Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded...
...weeks after the Cincinnati Reds' Second Baseman Billy Martin caved in the face of Cubs' Pitcher Jim Brewer in a rhubarb over beanballs, the Cubs and Brewer fought back with a $1,040,000 suit against the Reds and their terrible-tempered infielder, provoked Martin to crack: "I wonder if they want this in cash or by check...
...Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist. The greatest "scientific humanist" of his age, Huxley was once tempted to become a brewer in Australia, an artist and a poet-though Huxley's quoted lines on the death of Tennyson prove nothing but that he had read Tennyson and knew he was dead...
...hard sell and the soft sell. To Charles Hendrickson Brower, 58, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), shambling president of Batten, Barton' Durstine & Osborn, "there is no such thing as the hard sell or the soft sell. There is only the smart sell and the stupid sell." Charlie Brewer's smart sell, last week, was the hottest sell in the ad world...