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Next week the 4,142 voters of Carmel will elect a mayor. New York City or Chicago should have such a choice. The incumbent, Charlotte Townsend, 61, is a no-nonsense woman who cut her teeth on the board of the village library. Paul Laub, 41, who has amassed a million or so as Carmel's czar of schlock, purveying T shirts and other bric-a-brac, made his name fighting city hall over issues like illegally washing his sidewalk. A college-trained tenor and restaurant worker named Tim Grady, 27, an echo of the Woodstock generation...
...dispute led to his newest role. Encouraged by a group headed by a saloonkeeper named Bud Allen, Eastwood stunned the town with his decision to run. Candidate Laub was stunned too but recovered quickly. He stocked CLINT FOR MAYOR T shirts in his stores, giving them only to customers who bought a LAUB FOR MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury...
...cooperate to solve the parking and tourist problem," he says. The low-key approach and easy smile have won over folks who knew him only from film. The race appears to be between Eastwood and Townsend, but no candidate seems ready to concede. "I'll whip his butt," vows Laub, the T-shirt salesman...
...more modest than the magazines is the Daytime Serial Newsletter ($8 per year; 20,000 subscribers), put out monthly by Bryna Laub, a California housewife. With eight television sets in her house, she tapes each show for later transcription. The idea for Newsletter was her husband's: after Bryna had spent hours on the phone updating her working women friends on their favorite serials, he cried in frustration, "Why tell them for free...
...unusual kid. I didn't look like anybody else," she recalls. "Everybody was wearing pageboys, and I had frizzy hair." She changed her name from Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill...