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Down with the blintz-munching, spaghetti-slurping, model-T-riding, cow-milking, let-me-shake-your-wonderful-hand type of campaigner. Why not restrict these grotesque acts of idiocy to the first week of September, requiring thereafter that candidates think and speak...
...Lick from a Cow. The Genesis version of what happened in the Garden of Eden, says Graves, is the result of a process he calls"iconotropy"-the misreading of pictures and symbols from one culture to fit the religious bias of another. He cites the familiar myth of Europa and the bull as an example of this process: the Greeks developed the patriarchal Zeus cult at the expense of the once sovereign "Moon-goddess" by interpreting a Cretan icon of the "Goddess dominating the Minos Bull by riding on its back, as though Zeus, in bull disguise, were carrying...
...post-Homeric Greek legends of Athene's birth from the head of Zeus, and Dionysus' birth from his thigh." For in all primitive myth, says the Goddess' Graves, "the female, not the male, gives life, even if she is no more than a primordial Scandinavian cow licking stones into human shape...
...scarcely broke stride. "A dirty deal," he cried to one newsman, and threatened to back up his complaint by playing his much-publicized tape. "People may want to make a sacred cow out of this boy Elliott, but they'll want to hang him, yessir, hang him, when I tell the true story on this deal." But at week's end Leo made plans to leave Australia. The tape, he explained lamely, was in Tokyo, "so how could I play it here...
...copywriter with Detroit's J. L. Hudson department store, the May Co., Bamberger's and R. H. Macy before joining Y. & R. in 1935. He soon made his name along ad alley with his whimsical ads for Arrow shirts, Travelers Insurance and Borden's "Elsie the Cow" campaign. In 1943 he was made a copy supervisor and, after two years' service in the U.S. Army, became vice president in charge of radio-TV commercials in 1951, then director of both print and radio-TV copy in 1954. Adman Gribbin, who lives in Greenwich, Conn...