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...then marketing vice president; he became president in 1969. Clements is a strict Alabama Baptist who likes to be called by his childhood nickname of "Foots." In between slugging down at least ten Dr Peppers a day and puffing on as many fat cigars, he blurts out a cracker-barrel version of the ads' philosophy: "Once I get Dr Pepper down their throats and tell them about it, I'm in business." He is a canny marketer in other ways. To distribute Dr Pepper a few years ago, Clements began signing up a string of independent Coke...
...junction of the Payette and Snake rivers claims a badge of prosperity that is rare on the smalltown scene: regularly scheduled air service. Airline service to small towns has never been particularly good and, because of rising costs, it is now going the way of the trolley car, the cracker barrel and the general store. During the past five years, 77 small communities have been lopped from airline route structures. Today fewer than 150 Payette-size towns have scheduled flights...
...after doing four months, and many doubted that he would emerge at all. The Kennedy phone call served notice that he and whatever political power he represented would not permit King to be led down the traditional way of all black flesh caught in the joint of the Georgia cracker...
Eudora Welty writes books and short stories. Her Losing Battles is a jewel of a novel about a cracker family in the thirties in Mississippi. Her newly published photographs, One Time, One Place: A Mississippi Album is a self-indulgence on her part for which we should be grateful. Eudora Welty is not a photographer, but she has salvaged not only a glimpse of the thirties, but more important even than that, she has shown us how she can salvage her own writing...
...feeling" statements, and this negates any biting commentary he ever wishes to make. Most men are basically good, says Kramer's films; their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn to respect each other. Think of Pauline Kael on Ship of Fools: "Original Sin Meets Mr. Fixit." As for recalcitrant Nazis or racists: Kramer only suggests slaughter...