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...Knoxes were born at a happy conjunction of piety and humanity. Grandfather George Knox had been a holy terror, a Low Church Anglican minister who tried to flog the hell out of his sons. Grandfather Thomas French, in Fitzgerald's words, "was a saint ... and as exasperating as all saints," a gifted linguist and longtime missionary to India who would squat in the marketplace of Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually...
...faithlessness is standard practice in the rough-and-tumble world of syndicates. Since Publisher Samuel S. McClure launched the first modern-day newspaper syndicate in 1884, the marketing of comics, columnists and other readymade editorial matter has become a large and lively industry. Some 300 syndicates are trying to flog a total of 10,000 features, from "Accent on Pets," to "Zane Grey's Best," with combined sales estimated at $100 million a year...
...recent fashion magazine illustrations. Last December Vogue magazine featured a 12-page fashion spread showing a man alternately nuzzling and beating the model. One sequence pictures the woman being battered off her feet in her $140 John Anthony jumpsuit. Says the porn paper San Francisco Ball of the trend: " 'Flog you!' may become the mating call...
...contends that commercial duties may be negotiable. But tinkering with a formula that brings in some $20 million a year in advertising is hardly likely. It is well remembered that sponsorship fell off significantly during the 14-month hostship of John Chancellor, who hated the assignment and refused to flog. Worst of all, Walters says that if the new host will not do commercials, neither will she. (Walters modestly denies veto power, though she adds: "I have talked some with Dick Wald and Herb Schlosser.") Today's trials are nearly over. Researchers are currently conducting viewer surveys...
Well, for one thing, the Me-Books so far prepared (by writers and artists who have wisely remained anonymous) are unattractive and vapid, a sad blend of box-top realism and the kind of plastic fantasy that Ronald McDonald might use to flog hamburgers. Moreover, unlike the stories that parents make up for their children, weaving in the details of private life, Me-Books are standardized...