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...protesters, longhairs. demanding blacks and all the upheavals of the decade have touched him only as agitated dream shadows on his TV set. His son Nelson, now 13, is still undersized and smallhanded. Home is a cheesy one-family house in a development on the outskirts of West Brewer, Pa. Mom Angstrom is dying; Pop works at Verity Press, where Rabbit finally wound up as a linotype operator...
...started when Designers Eileen Pittler, 24, and George Brewer, 27, invented a "sticky fingers" peace sign for a Pittsburgh radio station. It was made of vinyl and could be stuck on everything from car windows to people. Then, Eileen Pittler remembers, "I woke up one morning to find my Paul Newman poster had fallen down for the hundredth time." Together, Eileen and George designed a flat vinyl-like, baroque frame that sticks to a wall, can be adjusted to fit pictures of various sizes. From there, the designers went on to produce other kinds of stick-on mock furniture...
Just over the mountains from here, seven horned larks, two Brewer's blackbirds, two meadow larks and one curlew-an increase of eleven. However, the curlew has been fading out for years-even before pesticides. As a boy, I heard the curlew's call almost daily-a song of wild and ethereal beauty; a song embodying the loneliness of a loon's call and the mystery of the divine -to hear it was to be stirred to the depths of one's soul...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
...about its customers. Beer campaigns are tough. Delia Femina contends that Stan Freberg's "Ballantine's Complaint" campaign, a takeoff on Portnoy's Complaint, was based on the wrong premise. "How many beer drinkers can read?" Delia Femina asks. By his reckoning, Schaefer, a Brooklyn-based brewer, has the best advertising theme: "The one beer to have when you're having more than one." That message means something to a beer drinker, says Delia Femina. "Here I am, having more than one. As a matter of fact, I'm having 17 at one sitting...