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...picked the brain of Yachting magazine's Managing Editor Bill Taylor, who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the event in 1934. Moaned Taylor: "The same questions from the same guys, over and over.'' The landlubbers also got help from amateur newsmen who had persuaded their home-town editors to send them off to the races because they were salty sailors. Blonde, blue-eyed Betsy Wolfe, 22, sleek as a twelve-meter yacht, and an old crewing hand, turned out so well for the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette that her salary was raised from $6 a story...
Marquand has written this novel before, parts of it, at least, in Point of No Return. Even the town is the same-Clyde, Mass.-and the home-town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound...
...photographer takes his picture with Rexall's top brass, and the company often persuades the druggist's home-town paper to run it. Dart also gives the druggist an incentive to push Rexall products more vigorously than competing brands by selling at such low wholesale prices that the druggist can often get a bigger markup on Rexall products than others...
...Back home in Kingsburg (pop. 23,000), Rafe's parents smiled happily when the local radio station interrupted a music program to announce his victory. But none of the town's inhabitants were very surprised. To the home-town folks, Johnson is a Samson, Paul Bunyan and Frank Merriwell rolled into one. His smoothly muscled build (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) casts him in the mold of Jim Thorpe and Bob Mathias, great Olympic decathlon champions of the past. In high school he captained the track, basketball and football teams, is still remembered as a good infielder...
...roughly one station out of four is affiliated (with increasing reluctance) with one or more networks. With some honorable exceptions, the locals' standard fare consists of the so-called "Top 40" tunes (mostly rock 'n' roll), news-headline teasers, whooped-up contests and giveaways, voices of home-town deejays that every housewife learns to know and like during her lonely hours spent over dishes, ironing board and stove. More and more, local affiliates are dropping network shows; even the familiar 27-year-old broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday matinees have been canceled...