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...Scattershot Blasts. The Douglas committee's majority report, packed with economist's gobbledygook and lofty theory, was hardly suited for the political stump. But the Democratic Digest gave party spokesmen a free-swinging indictment of the Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities...
...pleasant to have around but can be comfortably ignored. The dial twister listens intermittently while getting up, before going to sleep, while shaving, eating, working around the house or driving (26% of the in 111 million radios in the U.S. are in automobiles). Aiming at such listeners with scattershot advertising (many spot announcements instead of big shows) and the inexpensive formula of recorded music, news and sports, local stations have hit the bull's-eye. They grabbed an audience from the networks, then sold time cheaply in large quantities to new as well as old radio advertisers, who recognized...
...book was turned down by several reputable publishing firms. Finally, he got in touch with Publishers Angus Cameron and Albert Kahn. Until 1951, Cameron was editor in chief of the old Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., padding its lists with Communist-line books. When some scattershot antiCommunists suggested that Little, Brown had itself become a front organization, the firm parted company with Cameron. Later, he appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and used the Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a secret member of the Communist Party. Cameron joined up with tweedy, seedy Albert Kahn...
...Pacific and the Normandy invasion as a LIFE artist-correspondent. Focusing now on Trompe-l'Oeil, Bohrod explains: "If explanation of these works is needed at all, I might say that they come about particularly because of my impatience with and my reaction against the scattershot, nonobjective and surface-decoration schools of painting which seem to constitute the bulk of current recognized endeavor." Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows, "is not popular with the esthete. They say . . . we have a machine called a camera that will do it better. I am not convinced. This is not a speck...
Some communities, opposed to the Oklahoma City and Houston-type ordinances because they are concerned about the effects of scattershot censorship, have turned to a better method of control. In Cincinnati, for example, a citizens' committee of businessmen, educators, clergymen and parents rates every comic book published. In Canton, Ohio, a mayor's committee started "Operation Book Swap," in two days collected 12,000 horror comic books, which were exchanged at the rate of ten to one for hard-covered books, e.g., Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland...