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...material is mostly good-time rock and roll and rhythm and blues. There's a nice version of Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." where Rick Derringer takes over the vocals, and all of Side Three is turned over to Winter's show-stopping version of "Tobacco Road...
RICHMOND is a peaceful, tobacco-rich community nestled on the banks of Virginia's James River. Last week, however, many of the area's 480,000 citizens seemed ready to take to the Civil War trenches that still border parts of the city. Once the embattled capital of the Confederacy, Richmond is now the center of a school-busing war that has touched off a cross fire of bitter invective...
...other. A reason may be that during their final years of life, Madison Avenue's well-paid, glamorous advocates of cigarettes were answered by a host of public-service messages that cited the scarifying findings of medical research into smoking. Most of these effective anti-tobacco ads disappeared from radio and TV after the ban on cigarette commercials...
...Tobacco men are aglow with new optimism. Philip Morris, for example, increased U.S. cigarette sales last year by more than 11%, and is constructing an $80 million factory in Richmond, which it claims will be the world's largest assembler of cigarettes. In addition, the industry has made a notable saving on its advertising budget. Even though cigarette makers increased their nonbroadcast advertising by some $133 million in 1971, their total advertising expenditure declined by $78 million...
VonGeorge was the kind of American failure that Theodore Dreiser was born to document. His real name, according to FBI files, was Merlyn La Verne St. George, and he once served two years in San Quentin for petty theft. He variously, and unsuccessfully, ran a tobacco shop, sold drug products and worked as assistant manager of a discount store. Despite his failures, though, friends in Brockton, Mass., where he moved in 1970, say that VonGeorge seemed determined to provide for his wife and seven children...