Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mailed out a supply of brand-new posters to members of advertising agencies, together with an invitation to let themselves go. Exactly 581 posters bearing inscriptions were returned to us, and duly examined by expert judges. Winning exhibits are now on display in New York's Grand Central Station. Naturally, many have an advertising slant: "The White Knight cheats at polo," "Pall Mall can't spall," "Avis is Hertz's Newsweek" "Xerox never comes up with anything original," and "I dreamed I could wear a Maidenform bra-Twiggy."." There is also the one about the two effeminate...
Radio, too, is talking as well as rocking around the clock. For cheap entertainment, there's nothing like the hotline show. All it takes is a know-it-all at the mike, a big switchboard at the station, and listeners with telephones. People who used to have nothing more to do than Dial-a-Devotion, Dial-the-Weather, Dial-the-Time, Dial-the-News and Dial-a-Senator, can now Dial-the-Radio. New Yorkers will hold the phone for ages waiting to tell WNBC's Brad Crandall what jerks the other listeners are. There is a prestige...
...cubicles), and intra-Expo transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...
...days before and a New York talk show the night before. He was just finishing up a speech he would give two days later to a consumers' group. And he had to interrupt our interview for ten minutes to tape a segment for a New York radio station...
Johnson is Mailer's political obsession; his speech about LBJ at Berkeley last summer was cut off by the university radio station after ten minutes. Johnson, he said, invented the war to satisfy the rednecks who wanted to kill gooks, giving him an alternative to continued support of the civil rights movement. "Yes, thought the President," Mailer drawled, "his friends and associates were correct in their estimate of him as a genius. Hot damn. Vietnam. The President felt like the only stud in a whorehouse on a houseboat...