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...nation's TV screens last week, the Marlboro man made his last stand. So did the hole-in-the-shoe fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel, and the snooty adventurer who incredibly prefers a Silva Thin to a maiden plump. Forbidden by Congress to promote their cigarettes on television and radio after Jan. 1, tobacco companies clogged the airways with a surfeit of last-minute plugs, especially during the New Year's Day bowl games...
After years of sashaying across the home screen, the lean and leathery cowboys of the Marlboro cigarette commercials will ride off into the sunset on New Year's Day. The fright-wigged models in Virginia Slims' television ads will take their last mincing turn as symbols of women's emancipation, and Winston's abrasively ungrammatical TV message will be ending for good, as a worn theme should. By act of Congress, promotions for cigarettes, which many studies have found to be a cause of cancer, heart disease and other ailments, will be barred from television...
Tutman, the director of the Office, is a black resident of Upper Marlboro, Md., who has spent four years in the Peace Corps, and is currently deputy director of volunteer placement...
...baritone since his debut in Gounod's Faust five years ago. Although his name means nothing to most Americans, his voice is well known to millions: he was once the hearty balladeer who told people on television and radio that "you get a lot to like in a Marlboro." Musically, he has also exhorted consumers to try Falstaff beer, Kellogg's cornflakes and a host of other workaday products. Nowadays, though, Milnes is so busy with opera that he has no more time for commercials, to his mild regret. "I've made more than...
After six months of rift rumors, the breakup has finally become official: come mid-May, Chet Huntley leaves David Brinlcley after a 13½ -year association that made them the No. 1 news team in the country. Huntley is headed for Marlboro Country, something called Big Sky Inc. -"a $13 million resort and leisure-time enterprise"-in Montana. Good night, David...