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...Hawthorne's hands, commercials get rough justice. When a plug is due, he bangs on his "attention getter" (a pair of crash cymbals) as a red alert to the audience. Most of the transcribed commercials are played at either very slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound like either a foghorn or Donald Duck. On one occasion he treated his listeners to ten minutes of Bach, with interpolated comments and seal yelps. Conductor Mark Warndw, after hearing a Hawthorne show, said judiciously: "He's half haw, half thorn...
...Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote into the G.O.P. camp...
While waiting for Johnson, Brazilians had time to appraise their two-year exposure to Bill Pawley. The millionaire go-getter, who often invited 750 guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too fast-to sell his ideas. He wanted to raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation...
...people used to be reticent about mentioning the dread word cancer. But last week a citizen had only to twist a dial to hear it discussed at the top of radio's voice. Between plugs for coffee and candy bars, radio stations were ballyhooing, with every attention-getter in the book, the American Cancer Society's April drive...
...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...