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...guests at Edward L. Bernays' 90th birthday party last Sunday was having his own personal celebration. Over 300 had come from all over America and the world, wanting both to celebrate Bernays' 9th decade and to reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder of the public relations profession and nephew of Sigmund Freud, was having hundreds of parties all at once. Adopting his favorite professorial stance, Bernays had this to say about becoming ninety: "We have a chronological age, a physiological age, a mental, societal and emotional age. To be sure, my chronological age is ninety.... My physician tells...
...mass mind is, to Bernays, a subject of perpetual fascination. His uncle, Freud, to whom he had intimate access, stood as Bernays' intellectual ideal, but while the Viennese doctor was interested in releasing the pent-up libido of the individual, his American nephew is engaged in releasing and "engineering" the supressed desires of the crowd. In applying these ideas to American conditions for the first time, Bernays has proven that the public can be "brought to accept" anything from a Presidential personality to a new breakfast food...
Directed by Sidney Pollack Screenplay by Kurt Luedtke omeone with no face and no name is trying to get me. And you're the gofer." The angry speaker is a man named Michael Gallagher. It is his misfortune to be the son and nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune...
McCormack, despite living in the rental neighborhood of Brighton and therefore endorsing a pro-tenant position, has the advantage of a good political name (it is spelled the same as the late Speaker of the U.S. House, John McCormack, and his nephew, former city councilor and lieutenant governor, Edward McCormack) and a good connection (he worked for Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti). Bolling, the only Kevin Seven candidate with a chance, is the strongest Black candidate and has the substantial support of his father, a former State Rep., and his brother, a current State Rep. Both Bolling and McCormack...
...agree with Bobby Kennedy Jr., 27, and Emily Ruth Black, 24. And eventually Bobby and Emily began to agree with each other. Last week the couple announced that they would be wed on March 6. Young Bobby is the son of Ethel and the late Robert Kennedy, and the nephew of President John Kennedy. Emily is the blossomy, corn-fed daughter of a Bloomington, Ind., lumberman. Said Bobby: "My father won Indiana in 1968, and her mother is a Democrat who voted for him. I checked that fact out before I popped the question...