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Few Americans can move very far from home these days without running into a squat, silent (except for a few rumbles) salesman who has become an unbelievable success by indulging its customers' penchant for convenience, impulse buying and gadgetry. The salesman is the ubiquitous vending machine, before which Americans...
His granddaddy was a Texan, but Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, 54, is an Eastern dude. Nonetheless, he knows that out West, it ain't spurs that go jingle, jangle, jingle, it's those silver dollars the mountain folk use as a status symbol to stun the visitors...
Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart...
Next came time for a bow to a revered institution: the American family. Lyndon ordered picnic tables set up in his backyard, piled them with cookies, stocked them with pitchers of pink punch, called for a press conference and in vited reporters to bring along the wife and kiddies. More...
Slow Motion. The action of the novel centers on the town's preparations for a farewell chicken-fry and the efforts of a film producer and scenarist to make a great film of the life and death of a Southern town. The characters involved in all this might seem...