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...industry turned out a tidy little packet of advice to anxious-to-please politicians. To help "those in public life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will begin your talk with a large audience -your job is to keep that audience") and containing a long list of dos and don'ts. Samples...
...John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The predominance of poets in the list of examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet's end, a writer hungry for the heady sight of print is very apt to start wondering where he can borrow the cash to pay for the first installment...
Another kind of smear comes in a 16-page pamphlet, Headlines and What's Behind Them ("for students, writers and speakers"). A streamer on the front page blares the message: REDS, NEW DEALERS USE IKE IN PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews...
...Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kans. reports by pamphlet that "the international Jewish banking fraternity" is ready "to sovietize" the U.S. Writes Winrod (whose Nazi-line pamphleteering got him indicted for sedition in 1945) : "Woodrow Wilson failed them. Franklin Roosevelt served them to the end of his days. Harry Truman remains their pawn. Dwight Eisenhower is their choice in this, the catastrophic year...
...years as a parson, Malan drummed home his favorite theme: Africa for the Afrikaners. At 39 he read Marx, and wrote a 30-page pamphlet extolling socialism and praising Marx. For his assault on the Kaffirs he relied on cropped passages from the Old Testament. Example : ". . . Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...