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...themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines, but he prefers to study their meanings and rephrase them...
Judge Clary found that many of the "voluntary" groups were actually "false fronts" bankrolled by the railroads' publicist, Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.. which got about $500,000 yearly from the roads. Said the judge: "Byoir quietly concealed from objective-minded public officials the fact that its entire campaign was a creature of the railroads ... for the purpose of hindering and destroying the trucking industry as a competitor. As a result of this campaign [truckers] were characterized as lawbreakers, road-hoggers, completely indifferent to the safety of others, and moochers on the public through failure to pay their...
More than a decade ago Historian and Publicist Oliver Lawson Dick, "electing myself" to be the "young Man," went to work sorting out the huggermugger of 66 sprawling volumes of Aubrey manuscripts. The result, now published for the first time in the U.S., is a fascinating, alphabetically ordered collection of 134 portraits. As not a single Figge-leaf hides Elizabethan ribaldry, the book is scarcely suitable for young Virgins. Samples...
...investigators are dictator-hating New Dealer Morris L. Ernst, who has spent most of his career as a pugnacious battler for civil rights, and Republican William H. Munson, an ex-district attorney and New York State Supreme Court justice. The publicist: Sydney S. Baron, speechwriter for Tammany Boss Carjnine De Sapio. Under the agreement, the lawyers and their crew of private investigators will have free access to any persons or documents in the Dominican Republic, will be free to publish their findings without censorship. "We know of no analogous instance," said De Moya, "when a sovereign state voluntarily has requested...
...Wife of Publicist Gervas Huxley, cousin of Aldous and Julian...