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...Hate-preaching demagogues took to the street corners, and raunchy radicals issued inflammatory broadsides. From a pro-Red China outfit called the Progressive Labor Movement came a handout that screeched insurrection: "Once again the cops have murdered one of our children. They have been killing about one black person a day in New York City. Lieut. Thomas Gilligan (remember that name) shot James once and James fell to the ground. This fascist cop stood over him and fired two more bullets into him. He then kicked the dead body. THIS is THE WAY THE FASCIST AND RACIST COPS OPERATE HERE...
Army is a different story. The Cadets, led by sophomore pitcher Barry de Bolt, are unbeaten on the year except for an 8-2 loss to a pretty good outfit called the New York Yankees...
...hawked in most advertising columns is about the dreariest in the land. Walter Addiego, who churns out an ad column for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, said recently: "Last week the Dymo company let me make an announcement that they were looking for a new domestic public relations outfit." Stunned and humbled by this scoop, Addiego added: "You can't be that lucky all the time." The headlines induce mostly mystification or slumber: BANKS TO INCREASE USE OF ADVERTISING (Chicago Tribune), PRSA, WRIGHT FIRM AT LOGGERHEADS (Joe Kaselow), WAYNE WELCH INC. WILL OPEN AGAIN (Denver's Rocky...
...outfit headed by Publisher William Loeb of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, a far-right supporter of Barry Goldwater, and Lawyer John C. Satterfield of Yazoo City, Miss., a former head of the American Bar Association and an avowed states' righter. Much of the committee's money comes from the publicly financed Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission...
Ingrained Skepticism. In November, Jedlicka scored a different kind of coup: S. & L. Supervisor Chris Stolfa of the Illinois Department of Financial Institutions resigned. Though he was not accused of having a hand in the S. & L. frauds, Stolfa was badly hurt by the revelation that one S. & L. outfit had celebrated the opening of new offices with the help of $5,746 of jollity purchased from a Stolfa-owned liquor store. In mid-January, Jedlicka reported that Chicago's Deputy Building Commissioner Robert Ewbank had signed loans totaling $800,000 with two of the questionable S. & L.s. Ewbank...