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...PITIFUL STORY OF MARIA HALPIN AND GOVERNOR CLEVELAND...
Cleveland, a bachelor but an improbable rake, acknowledged the child, for whom he had provided support payments to Maria Halpin all along. "Above all," Cleveland instructed his people, "tell the truth." An admirable thought. The New York Sun's Charles A. Dana wrote: "We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House." By October the Nation judged: "Party contests have never before reached so low a depth of degradation as this." The Democrats...
...into third gear"--an implied threat to launch a boycott. That got CompUSA's attention. The company complained to the ABC Radio Network, which syndicates Joyner's show, about the false letter Joyner had read. It's not clear what happened next. Though CompUSA's president and CEO, James Halpin, says he never told ABC he was planning legal action against Joyner, ABC got weak in the knees. According to Joyner and Smiley, the network's president, Lyn Andrews, warned them that if they did not stop talking about CompUSA, then ABC might "pull the plug on the show...
...word would be out that if you call ABC, [it] will make us shut up." The next day, with Joyner's blessing, Smiley blasted ABC for threatening to cancel the show. ABC's and CompUSA's switchboards were overwhelmed with angry phone calls from Joyner's fans. Last week Halpin appeared on Joyner's show and promised to hire a black-owned ad agency and to give a 10% discount to those who had sent in CompUSA receipts. Everyone's happy now. But why do black consumers have to go to such extreme lengths to get companies to take them...
...reason we use psychologists is to be responsible in creating advertising to children," Halpin says...