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...speak, as one of the nation's most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes poetry out of the anguished longing of empty lives...
Iannuzzi said yesterday that Brighams has a universal company policy against all buttons or badges. "If we didn't have this rule we would end up with very possible badge, knickknack, or docdad, he said. "We don't even allow smile buttons-it's nothing political...
Died. Edmond A. Guggenheim, 84, philanthropist and an heir to one of the largest family fortunes in U.S. history; in Phoenix. The grandson of Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant who started with a small knickknack business and built a vast mining and smelting empire, Edmond Guggenheim helped supervise the family's copper holdings throughout the Western hemisphere for nearly half a century. For more than 30 years he also presided over the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, which provided free dental care to the poor...
...every bit as busy outside show business. In the four years that he has been doing the Budweiser beer commercials on Tonight, he has developed into principal spokesman for the company and now does 50% of all its radio and TV ads. He owns a stationery company, a knickknack concern, a talent agency, a TV and film production company and a Florida drive-in store. His wife Alyce does not see much of him during the week, but at least his four children do not have to peddle slicers: a conservative estimate of his earnings is something more than...
...Angeles' International Airport resembles a surrealist skid row, composed of a group of crumbling temporary buildings painted in sick and faded shades of pink and green. Gum wrappers and blobs of melting ice cream litter the floors; jammed in the corridors are scales, fortunetelling machines, knickknack shops, gum dispensers, rusty refuse baskets, and hundreds of blinking neon lights. To get to and from their planes, passengers must walk nearly a quarter of a mile. This week Los Angeles' embarrassment over this disgrace came to an end as Vice President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the city...