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...long argued that some Geritol claims were deceptive because the vast majority of people who suffer from vague listless feelings would not be helped by the product. FTC investigations of Geritol began in 1959, but have been stalled in the regulatory mill and the courts ever since. The marathon case ranks second only to the FTC's 16-year effort to get Carter Products, Inc. to stop misleading advertising that claimed its Carter's Little Liver Pills could overcome lethargy and even the blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Geritol's Bitter Pill | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...Crimson utilized the fast break and jumped to a comfortable 60-36 lead by halftime. The listless Jumbos failed to threaten Harvard in the second half. The Crimson kept sinking the buckets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fast Break Helps J.V. Cagers Pound Weak Jumbo Five | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

...Crimson wrestlers nabbed their first season win last Saturday, nailing down seven out of ten matches against a listless Brown squad and upending the Bruins...

Author: By Rick Sia, | Title: Wrestlers Drub Brown, 40-12 To Capture First Season Win | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Sarris simply hasn't written much at all lately, and what he has written has been listless at the core. You could once imagine his effusions as if they emerged from a fevered monk of an arcane order. They now seem merely monkish. And the decline can be attributed both to the burning out of an inherently neurotic talent, and the barrenness of Sarris's critical dogmas...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Decline and Fall of a Film-Watcher | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

...residents of Prichard, a decaying and listless town of 41,000 people on the outskirts of Mobile, had not known such excitement since Alabama Governor George Wallace last gave his rousing annual Labor Day address in a local park. There, behind the screaming sirens of the escorting police motorcycles, came four Lincoln Continentals, a white Cadillac, a marching band and an ROTC drill team. The town, almost equally divided between blue collar whites and impoverished blacks, was parading to inaugurate its new and unlikely mayor: Algernon ("Jay") Cooper Jr., 28, a smooth and sophisticated Northern-educated black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: New Mayor in Town | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

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