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Judging an Agent. There was plenty more to the General American case. In a suit to recover $6,640,000 for 57,000 creditors, policyholders and stockholders, the state accused the company of buying political influence in Kentucky. When Kentucky Insurance Commissioner S. H. Goebel indicated two years ago that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner...
...Kentucky investigation never came off. Keck, Hall and Goebel all denied that political pressure was used to block any investigation, but Keck admitted that he and a General American officer had gone to see Goebel "about some difficulties the company was having...
Joop Geesink, 39, is a ball-shaped Dutchman who runs the Dollywood Film Corp. in Amsterdam, where puppeteers, artists and moviemakers grind out some of the liveliest TV and theater commercials seen anywhere. Joop (pronounced yoop) supplies a few Michigan and California stations with beer commercials (Goebel Brewing Co.) which are so attractive that one station has actually received requests to "play it again." Most of Joop's commercials run about 20 seconds, feature remarkably lifelike, plastic puppets moving stringlessly, smoothly and expressively through slapdash roles. Only near the end of the "puppetoon" does the audience get the well...
Last week Joop was visiting the U.S., lining up some new accounts on the basis of his Goebel beer success. For televiewers, who have learned to brace themselves or ignore, with philosophical indifference, the local brand of hard-selling commercials, it looked like an era of happy viewing, thanks to Joop and Dollywood...
Rain had been beating down on the country around Thousand Oaks, Calif, for three days. At Louis Goebel's Wild Animal Farm it turned the grounds to hay-littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned. The lions were not exercised while the rain fell-they were mean cats, and overage (4½ years old) for training, and the bad weather made them sullen and difficult...