Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least, maintained a stoic silence. Unlike Winston Churchill, who so hated his 80th birthday portrait by Graham Sutherland that he kept the original hidden until his death, Johnson cannot conceal the "ugliest thing" he ever saw. Hurd is putting the painting on public display this week in the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, and-thanks to its recent publicity-it eventually will be seen across the country. Meanwhile, the current wisecrack in Washington is that artists should be seen around the White House-but not Hurd...
...great deal of ethnic feeling is still enshrined in political rituals. In New York City, for instance, there are the infuriating, hopelessly provincial national parades (on St. Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, etc.), which paralyze Manhattan to very little purpose. Some Italians still get excited when somebody pushes Leif Ericson's claim to be the discoverer of America, and John Gronouski, now U.S. Ambassador to Poland, was jeered by Polish fraternal organizations in the Midwest when they discovered that he could not speak the language. (He took some quick lessons.) There are many lingering ethnic sensibilities on foreign...
...biggest farm coops, in 1926 founded a mutual auto-insurance firm that became Nationwide Insurance Companies (3,000,000 policyholders, $760 million assets), then after World War II took the idea of little people helping little people to CARE, ot which he was the first president; of pneumonia; in Columbus...
Drizzle & Drench. With such lucrative fees available, Siday is exploring new ways to exploit the electronic hard sell. His latest creation is Identitones, Inc., a package of 50 "sound images," which has already been snapped up by radio stations in Columbus and Cleve land, Baltimore and New York City. Because of the similarity of radio programming, explains Siday, "it is very important that the listener know what station he is listening to." In addition to a six-note electronic theme that ham mers home the station's call letters in a dozen variations, Siday's package includes...
...paper's brisk style. Though Newsday is published just outside New York City, it has hired few experienced reporters from New York publications. "We get our best people from middle-sized papers in middle-sized towns," says Hathway. "Towns like Charlotte, N.C., or Columbus, Ohio, have given us better reporters," adds Managing Editor Bill Mcllwain. "They're a little bit hungrier, and they don't come on like a bunch of old China hands doing you a favor...