Word: owen
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...Owen Baldwin...
...million countercampaign in support of diversity, called People for the American Way and featuring TV public-service ads produced by Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family. (Moral Majority has announced that Falwell will demand reply time whenever a Lear ad appears.) Most important, advertisers are uneasy. Chairman Owen Butler of Procter & Gamble, TV's biggest customer ($486.3 million in commercials last year), announced in mid-June that within the past year his company had pulled out of 50 TV movies and series episodes, including seven of the ten series that Wildmon has cited as "top sex-oriented...
...ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic in Connecticut and sent to Edouard Stackpole, whaling expert and curator of the Peter Foulger Museum in Nantucket. Here are excerpts from Nickerson 's chronicle...
...sake that their friends should know their fate, Charles Ramsdell made the first proposition to cast lots. Captain Pollard would not listen to it, saying to the others "No, but if I die first you are welcome to subsist on my remains," and [Pollard's nephew Owen] Coffin joined in the entreaty to cast lots. They then cut some blank paper checks, [and] put them in a hat. The lot fell upon Coffin, which he distinctly declared to be a fair lot and that he wished to abide by it. Captain Pollard then declared that he would take...
...million -that's money, a figure that commands respect from coast to coast, or more precisely, from the Burbank studios to Manhattan's Network Row. It also happens to be the amount that Procter & Gamble spent on TV advertising last year. So when P & G Chairman Owen Butler spoke out last week about what the nation's No. 1 TV advertiser thought of television, he found an interested if hardly enthusiastic audience among broadcasters. His message: P & G is listening to the critics from the New Right who complain about sex and violence on prime time...