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...group in Boston is as involved in rock 'n' roll gold as the current college population, and RKO, in its one year on the air, has easily captured the student audience, so this upcoming extravaganza seems perfect--in theory. But in actuality, what has happened? The R-KO list is based on cards sent in by listeners last spring. And not only were voters limited to their top three, choices, but a prize was offered for the voter whose list coincided with the final tally. As a result, almost all the 5,000 ballots coalesced around 15 teenybopper standards...
Votes got pretty thin around 50, let alone for number 300, so R-KO experts Arnie Ginsberg, (yes, the Wood lives!), J. J. Jeffreys, and Mel Phillips beefed up the list. But the final tabulation (printed on a fold-out sheet and sent to all voters and contest entrants) remains distressingly modern and far from definitive...
After the list is gone through once, the disc jockeys will pull songs from the list as they wish. To get the full impact of the list then, a Friday night all-nighter is necessary. Before you bother to consider such a step, however, bear in mind some of the following items, culled from an advance list graciously supplied by promotion director Harvey Mednick...
...signatures (8% of registered Cambridge voters) necessary to put a question on the ballot by popular initiative. The CNCV's canvassers -- mostly young, college graduates--stood on street corners and rang doorbells. In one month they collected over 8000 signatures. Then they checked the signatures against voting lists searching for incorrect signatures. (A signature which differs by so much as an omitted middle initial from the person's name as it appears on the voting list is considered invalid.) They went back into the streets and had over 800 people sign their names again, correctly this time. That extra effort...
...later for Revlon), Matchan set off at age 40 to make lipstick cases on his own, soon hit on his formula for a con glomerate. The key was Cope Allman, a down-and-out Birmingham maker of brass bedsteads, which he bought for its major asset: a stock-exchange list ing. By floating new issues and a lot of publicity, Matchan was able to finance a flood of plants beyond England (where his company now accounts for 90% of lipstick-case output) to France (100%), Australia (80%) and elsewhere. With other companies (in printing, plastics, metalworking, warehousing) coming in along...