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...movements were forming in scores of cities, aiming at blocking his renomination or at least embarrassing him with strong anti-L.B.J. showings in the primaries. In California, the names of such entertainers as Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Comedian Dick Van Dyke appeared on the letterhead of the newly formed Dissenting Democrats. New York's fractious reform Democrats were seeking to run slates of anti-Johnson delegates in next June's primary. In Washington, the Conference of Concerned Democrats was preparing to challenge him. In Pittsburgh, supporters of New York's Senator Robert...
...hunting ground it may be, but L. L. Bean, Inc. is also an efficiency expert's nightmare. It stashes incoming mail in shirt boxes. Once it lost $125,000 in business when a list of 40,000 would-be customers was mistakenly destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that could have been...
...Letterhead. Not in California certainly. Pat Brown ran for the state assembly as a Republican in 1928, vowed on becoming Governor that he would follow the illustrious example of Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson, Republicans both. Actor George Murphy, once a New Deal Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1964. And Ronnie Reagan was once an outspoken Roosevelt-Truman Democrat and A.D.A. activist. As president of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild, he could not believe that he was being gulled by Communist officials, as he admits today, and himself earned a reputation as a fellow...
...letters got results. In the spring of '61 there were rumors that Weld Hall, the one-time freshman residence of both Potter's friends and John Kennedy, might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
Pusey said he had agreed to join the council "the first time I was asked," although he could not recall when that was. He would be "surprised" if the group did not list his name on their letterhead "with the other college presidents," he said...