Word: publicist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Image Building. General Motors' statement plainly showed the imprint of Chairman Roche, a onetime Cadillac publicist who has been laboring since he took command last November to brighten the company's public image...
Alabama's George Wallace has insisted all along that he will be a third-party presidential candidate only if the Democrats and Republicans nominate candidates whose views he opposes. Last week Wallace could wait no longer. With his blessing, right-wing California Publicist William K. Shearer, 36, launched the American Independent Party, with plans to organize state committees nationwide...
...other hand, Pike is widely excoriated as a grandstanding publicist, a Unitarian in Episcopal robes, even an atheist in disguise. The Rev. Glen Braswell, executive secretary of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, fumes at Pike as "a prophet of the devil. He UPI is nonChristian, and as a theologian he is attempting to destroy the Christian faith...
...worked miraculously. Last week Morton reported that he was down to 18 inches of mail a day, "and there's very little junk in it." Even so, some publicity men have persisted. When Morton sent them bills as promised, Delta Airlines paid up. But when Publicist John Grouse refused, Morton took his $31 tab to small-claims court. There, to almost everyone's surprise, Judge Martin Shachat rejected Grouse's plea of accepted and traditional practice, ordered him to pay Morton's bill on the grounds that the letter had clearly and quite legitimately redefined that...
Boyd testified that he attempted in vain to prevent Dodd's going to Germany, at Klein's request, to placate cli ents of the publicist who were unhappy over criticism of Klein in a Senate committee investigation. It was April 1964, and Dodd was floor manager for two sections of the Civil Rights bill. "He understood it was a bad time to go," Boyd testified, "but he said, 'I have to go.' He said, 'Julius has been pressing me and pressing...