Word: harper
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...where the amendment was thought to have the strongest chance for passage. Governor George Nigh and the leadership of both houses of the state legislature supported the measure. Pro-ERA groups ran radio, television and newspaper ads, took polls and organized door-to-door canvassing. The requisite celebrities (Valerie Harper, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, Alan Alda) and politicians (former Vice President Walter Mondale) made appeals in person. Senators were bombarded with letters and phone calls, and streams of visitors turned up at their offices...
...Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there's daylight in the swamps...
POEMS & SKETCHES OF E.B. WHITE Harper & Row; 217pages...
...DEAN'S DECEMBER; By Saul Bellow; Harper & Row; 312 pages...
These are not cheap shots aimed to cripple Rumania's tourist industry or elicit smug agreement about Communist inefficiency. Corde has seen worse in Chicago. He has, in fact, written about it with appalling accuracy for Harper's magazine and caused a flap. The dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist...