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...Future. Its chief argument against Lawyer Case is that his voting record in Congress (1945-53) was more Democratic than Republican. A group represented by Publicityman James P. Selvage, onetime pressagent for the National Association of Manufacturers (1933-38) and for the Republican National Committee (1943-44), has attacked Case as a darling of the Americans for Democratic Action and the C.I.O. By last week Republican State Chairman Samuel L. Bodine considered the attack serious enough to issue a point-by-point reply. Selvage's material, said Bodine, was a collection of "false statements, distortions and misrepresentations." Example: Selvage...
Except for the Boston Record, which went along to the extent of running a picture of the pot, the Boston press pretty much ignored the big find. But Publicityman Wood was not through. Later, he mailed out another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
...Publicityman Wood didn't seem to mind that a lot of people knew about his stunt. He was confident that, within a few years, nobody would care very much how the old Bean Pot Tradition did start...
With him works loud, flashy Publicityman Bert Nevins. Says Nevins with simple candor: "Doughnuts lend themselves readily to screwy publicity...
Directors, all bona fide Democrats: Educator Alan Valentine, president of the University of Rochester; redheaded John Hanes, ex-Under Secretary of the Treasury in the New Deal; Lewis Douglas, ex-New Deal Director of the Budget. Press agent for the organization is big-time Publicityman Leo Casey, who handled Tom Dewey's campaign for Governor of New York. Mr. Hanes expressed their sentiments last week in two eruptive sentences: ''Eight years of him already! Put him in another four . . . and our children will have Roosevelts for Presidents too.'' Straws in the Wind. Last week poll...