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...speak up on current issues and incorporating an eight-point opinion poll to be sent to President Nixon triggered 115,000 letters to the White House. Young & Rubicam's modest plea for funds for "a small park in Harlem" was greeted with sufficient donations for five parks. Leo Burnett Co., Inc.'s warning on environmental hazards resulted in requests for more than 300,000 reprints. The very first ad in the series, Savitt Tobias Balk Inc.'s reflections on the meaning of Independence Day, drew immediate requests for 10,000 reprints. The ad was used...
Cavanagh is also an all-American hockey player within reach of the all-time Harvard scoring record. He isn't conceited, and he plays cleanly. He is Chip Hilton and Brone Burnett, he is a fourth-grader's dream come true...
...Builder. Winston A. Burnett has illustrated what a Negro manager can do when he finds enough capital to expand. Harlem's Burnett, now plump and 45, learned about construction from the bottom up by working as a painter, plasterer and carpenter in his youth. Later he built one of Harlem's larger contracting firms, Winston A. Burnett Construction Co.; it had a yearly volume of $1,000,000. Despite his experience and his sound business practices-he continually reinvested all profits in the company-Burnett could not get the bank loans, and especially the performance bonds, needed...
Beginning in 1967, however, Burnett began getting help from Boise Cascade Corp., a white-owned firm whose officers believe that fostering black capitalism is part of their social responsibility. Boise Cascade has bought 49% of Burnett's stock and all told invested about $5 million. The white company also arranged bank credit for Burnett and helped to secure performance bonds. Charles Butler, a black Boise Cascade executive, joined Burnett Construction as president last October; Burnett is chairman. Helped not only by Boise Cascade's capital but also by the advantages that a black-run firm has in negotiating...
...always renowned for political audacity, was under attack for censoring two separate peace pleas taped by Carol Burnett and Elke Sommer for the network's late-night Merv Griffin Show. Both were emotional appeals for antiwar letters to be sent to Mrs. Martin Luther King, who planned to deliver them to the President as part of a movement called People for Peace. After Burnett's bitter protest, the network apologized, saluting her as "one of the great stars in the CBS family." Like the Smothers Brothers...