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Four days a week customers gather in the lobby of the Talman Home Federal Savings and Loan in the Gage Park section of Chicago. Occasionally someone makes a deposit or takes money out of an account. But most of the time, the customers just sit around chatting, drinking coffee and munching free doughnuts. Says Louis Brockman, 91, a regular at Talman: "This is one of the nicest places in the world. Everybody talks nice to you, from the sweepers to the president...
...costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...
...anticommercials themselves are sometimes just the reverse of cigarette ads; the smokers are miserable instead of happy, look stale instead of springtime-fresh, cough instead of smile. By far the most chillingly effective ad is an appeal by Actor William Talman, a longtime three-pack-a-day smoker. Talman, who played the prosecuting attorney in the Perry Mason series, looks gaunt and ill as he appears onscreen with his family. He tells viewers: "I have a family consisting of six kids and a wife whom I adore, and I also have lung cancer, which means that my time with this...
Died. William Talman, 53, stern-faced district attorney of the Perry Mason TV series, who lost all 252 of his cases during the show's nine-year run; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...payments lost what he had bought on time. But banks, finance companies and stores now realize that what is good for the consumer is also good for them. To avoid repossessions they go out of their way to rearrange terms, give the borrower a better break. Chicago's Talman Savings and Loan announced in June that people who had had loans for two years and lost their jobs could skip their payments for up to six months...