Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atlanta Waitress Lucy McDonald was in De Kalb General Hospital visiting her sister two years ago when she got the hiccups. Except for two short periods, Lucy has hiccuped ever since. She tried home remedies-2,000 of them-from drinking gin to eating peanut butter. More than 100 doctors examined her. She was drugged and she was hypnotized. The hiccups continued-sometimes at a clip of 90 a minute...
FRED L. BOGER De Kalb...
...Georgia, the Decatur-De Kalb News, which gives away 32,700 copies a week, has its own editorial cartoonist, pays the dues of all reporters who want to join civic clubs-and on rainy days fields as many as 500 telephone complaints from irate "subscribers" who simply cannot understand why delivery has been delayed. In increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with...
...would never mention Khrushchev," says Editor Ferdinand Mendenhall of the Valley Green Sheet, "unless he drops a bomb on Van Nuys Boulevard." The Decatur-De Kalb News has some 6,000 "associate editors"-all of whom paid $2 for the title, and many of whom submit stories to the paper. In Topsfield, Mass., the local school bus driver, an energetic amateur photographer, snaps all the pictures for Topsfield's giveaway paper, the Tri-Town Transcript...
...little or no savvy in the securities business, recruit a large number in the armed forces to sell to buddies or subordinates, and have their salesmen play to the "fear, pride and patriotism" of prospective buyers. One brokerage firm that also specializes in selling training materials for fund salesmen-Kalb, Voorhis & Co.-advises them to use the "accidentally-on-purpose" technique: when filling out a fund contract, write in an astronomically high monthly investment-perhaps $250-to start the buyer "thinking...