Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There he is, between reels of the late show on TV, popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called...
...three packages are released by a Manhattan-based firm called Dynamic House/Tele House, the newest and, by some accounts, the most successful of the mail-order record companies. The first legitimate firm in the field was Columbia House, a division of CBS, which was started in 1967 and has marketed over 50 albums (sample titles: The Look of Love, Country Classics, Music for a Rainy Afternoon...
...record and wait four to six weeks to get it," he observes, "is not an average record customer." Along with Columbia House and such smaller competitors as the Longine Symphonette (a seven-record set by Nat King Cole), Crane's firm has made the TV-promoted mail-order market the fastest-growing segment of the record business...
...tiny town, but that doesn't mean that when we have strong feelings, we shouldn't show them." In Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District, the only one in the state to support Nixon in the 1972 election, Democratic Congressman Gerry E. Studds says that his mail is running 1,911 to 35 in favor of impeachment. "Many are long, thoughtful, soul-wrenching letters from people who voted two and three times for Nixon and now feel betrayed...
...himself and his wife Galena, 24, to emigrate to Israel. Reaction was vicious and immediate. Panov was dismissed from the Kirov, while Galena was demoted from soloist to the corps de ballet. Since then, Panov has been continually harassed. His phone has been cut off, he can receive no mail from abroad, and he has been roughed up by the secret police. Now confined to the city of Leningrad, the Panovs said last week that they had gone on a hunger strike "to the end." In New York, an emergency committee, including Mike Nichols, Beverly Sills, Joanne Woodward...