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Died. Carl Byoir, 68, onetime patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti...
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