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...nose and throat on his own. But it seems he's never made it past tonsillectomies--his major contribution to the inaugural issue is a light pan of soft-core pornographic advertising. No tough social criticism here: his oh-so-cynical ending is a quote from some Madison Avenue flunky, "It's that honest and sincere." No, Rosenbaum is a hard sell...
...Madison...
Only three days after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Carter stood before his regular, adult Sunday-school class in Plains, Ga., explaining the biblical declaration that "God is love." The contrast between the two settings could hardly have been greater, but Carter was equally at home in both...
Singsong Effect. Northerners were startled when Carter referred in his acceptance speech at New York's Madison Square Garden to "Eye-talians." Some Eye-talians might have been ruffled, but a number of Georgians and other Southerners did not even blink. Why should they, in a region where a porch is a "pye-azzuh" and the capital of Austria-as well as a Georgia town by the same name-is "Vy-anna"? Vienna, Ga., incidentally, is the home town of Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell (see THE PRESS). Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan-or, as it is pronounced...
...candidate was not talking and his aides did not know. So the 5,500 reporters competing for scoops at the Madison Square Garden love-in were unable to find out in advance the identity of Jimmy Carter's running mate. Except for Gilbert Giles. By following up a tip from an associate of Edmund Muskie who was privy to the Maine Senator's pre-convention discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed...