Word: garagiola
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...Oriole fan, can't even see his team play in Fenway Park from time to time. The Dodgers only pass over New England, occasionally, as they fly between New York and Montreal. You see them on NBC's "Game of the Week" every so often, but never without Joe Garagiola or someone saying. "Well, the Dodgers won't win it this year, but they sure are an exciting team." Small consolation...
...companies are lavishly promoting their rebate programs. Chrysler, which is saddled with the heaviest backlog of unsold cars and was first to begin offering rebates, is spending one-fourth of its $50 million annual ad budget on a series of video spots featuring TV Pitchman Joe Garagiola in a carnival setting urging viewers to hurry, hurry, hurry to their nearest dealer. Lincoln-Mercury commercials have Green Bay Packer Coach Bart Starr sincerely touting Ford's $200 to $500 giveaways. Dealers round the country are jumping in with their own brands of salesmanship and showmanship-some of them bizarre...
...have crumbled under the planner's rezoning and renewal schemes and the bulldozer's giant blade. One community that has successfully resisted the encroachment of urbanization is "the Hill," a 56-block, largely Italian area on the south side of St. Louis, where Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola grew up. After a series of fierce, emotion-charged struggles with local, state and federal officials, Hill residents now boast a model community that has the lowest crime rate and the highest property values in the city. TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels recently visited the Hill. Her report...
...residents cannily decided to turn the problem into an "Italian issue." When Secretary of Transportation John Volpe visited St. Louis on another matter. Polizzi requested a meeting and pressed for the overpass in the same, formal Italian that Volpe had learned back home in Massachusetts. Joe Garagiola began dropping hints that he might not be available any more on the Republican banquet circuit unless the Hill got its overpass. Finally Polizzi led a Hill delegation to Washington with a check for $50,000, raised by the residents themselves, to pay for the overpass. The Hill got its bridge...
Wednesday, January 24 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* In "Physical Phitness," Art Carney plays host to such sports-and spectators-as Carl Yastrzemski, Joe Garagiola, Roosevelt Grier, Pat O'Brien, George Plimpton and Don Rickles...