Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lorain, Ohio...
...campaign promises on national health insurance. At the same time, he was on television answering a lot of questions about the magazine articles in which his wife Joan admitted that she had long been an alcoholic. Politically, he seized every opportunity. After Timothy Hagan, 32, was elected chairman of Ohio's vote-heavy Cuyahoga County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote speaker at the state's largest political gathering in October, he was startled at how quickly Kennedy said yes. Old campaign...
DIED. Jesse Haines, 85, Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; in Dayton, Ohio. In 1920, after other major-league teams shunned him, Haines was signed up for the then considerable sum of $10,000 by Branch Rickey, manager of the Cardinals. Haines relied on his knuckle-ball to compile a 210-158 lifetime won-lost record with a 3.64 earned run average. A quiet player who tended a commercial garage offseason, he pitched until he was 44, earning the fond nickname "Pop" from his teammates, the "Gashouse Gang...
Actually, the potency of names is recognized more clearly and used more craftily than ever in this age of advertising. Name recognition is accepted as vital by both politicians and businesses. Ohio's ex-Congressman Wayne Hays, unsavory reputation and all, recently won a state legislative primary largely because of name recognition. Companies now calling themselves Equifax and Standex want to plant themselves in the public mind, while signaling that they are in tune with the technotronic times. And hucksters have long relied on the power of a clever name to sway a customer's decision. The popularity...
...written by Kenney), this work was a replica of a second-rate school annual, right down to the pushy ads for local merchants and the classmates' autographed cliches in the margins. The book is so rich in social detail that it brings a whole fictional town, Dacron, Ohio, to life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take aim at small-town American life in the '70's with the same spirit, and occasionally some of the pathos, of Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson...