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...fledgling Governors try to make a national splash...
Given this televised splash of mediocrity, followers of Rolling Stone had little reason to expect anything special in the published commemoration of the magazine's ten years, and the issue lives up to these very lowered expectations. Where an objective chronicle of the trends in rock over the last 120 months would have sufficed, the reader instead turns to pages of unabashed narcissism and a muddled, warped view of rock music during the years of Rolling Stone. In other words, the subject is the magazine itself, rather than the culture that nourished...
...bass guitars of a hard-rock group twang as psychedelic colors splash on the screen. An enraged housewife looms before the viewer, curlers in her hair and hands over her ears. "Turn that noise down!" she bellows, and the insistent pounding fades...
...plans a $50 million gambling palace in Atlantic City, N.J. Daniels also wants to license use of the company's trademark, the Playboy bunny, which he calls the "best in the world after Coca-Cola." A first step: Optipatent Ag, a Swiss optical manufacturer, will pay P.E.I, to splash the bunny over its sunglasses...
Charlie Thom, of course, was on hand for that very first Walker Cup Match, played in 1922, at the National Golf Links next door to Shinnecock. Thom could have ably represented either side, but the man who made the biggest splash in the first contest was not even slated as a competitor...