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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic Stumping The two major political parties this week will kick off the biggest, costliest, best-organized TV political campaign in history. Long before the conventions decided on the candidates, Republicans and Democrats retained three ad agencies and took options on some $4,500,000 worth of fall radio-TV time (three times the 1948 costs). There will be far less whistle-stopping and fewer talks with local bosses, now that TV is out of the bush league of politicking. Items...
...whisky, unheralded Jack Daniel's won first prize. After that, Daniel's went right on winning awards, but the distillery did not try to capitalize on its growing fame. With nephew Lem Motlow running the business (uncle Jack had crippled himself in 1905 angrily trying to kick open his balky office safe), it still held to the old methods, turned out fewer than 800 gals, a day, not much more than an enterprising moonshiner. After Tennessee went dry in 1909, the distillery first moved to St. Louis, later, during Prohibition, shut down completely for almost 20 years. Finally...
These details taken care of, Stevenson filmed some of the 80-odd five-minute TV spot announcements that will hit the air waves in the weeks ahead, began working out plans for making six national TV addresses, announced that he would kick off his campaign with a big play for the labor vote: * a Labor Day speech, under the wing of United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther, in Detroit's Cadillac Square...
...slightest civilizing effects on a town that is still rude and crude. Cold westerly winds deliver a raw penetrating drizzle on one out of every two summer days. One night last week snow fell. Even so, cars churning through the town's main street-pridefully named the Boulevard-kick up clouds of chalk-colored dust; paved streets and sidewalks are still luxuries for the future. Chibougamau's population has shot up to more than 2,500 permanent residents; their new clapboard houses, many still unpainted, are crammed with the latest in electrical gadgetry...
...greatest kick out of this job. I can live with it," Osborne says. "Any time I can beat a communications problem, I'm happy...