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...only incident involving police gunfire during Louisville's first tense week of busing was ignored by the Louisville press. Indeed, before school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of tension. The violence occurred when Frank Prell, 34, a modestly prosperous white contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through...
...dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...
...business, but the enthusiasm was not entirely faked. What was remarkable about the parade of commercials was that they had been made with so much more imagination, humor, photographic skill and musical talent than the programs they were designed to interrupt. The cinematography in a Prell shampoo blurb was visual poetry as it showed, with crystalline acuity, each gob of goo sinking into each coil of hair. There was the pathos of Willy Loman in a Metrecal pitch called the Lonely Man (commercials have titles these days), which showed a forlorn, overweight figure trudging through Central Park on a cheerless...
...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...