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...monthly pared its literary content, beefed up its G.I. appeal with pulpy westerns and mysteries and a parade of cheesecake by Illustrators Varga and George Petty. Following the war, Gingrich and Owner David Smart disagreed over the magazine's direction and Gingrich left. "It became a sort of uptown Argosy," says Gingrich. By the time he returned in 1952, "the original advertisers had left, ad revenues were down, and the whole climate was such that those associated with its early phase refused to touch it with a ten-foot pole." Gingrich set it back on course again...
...slang has already entered common usage and spiced American humor. Department stores and boutiques have blossomed out in "psychedelic" colors and designs that resemble animated art nouveau. The bangle shops in any hippie neighborhood cater mostly to tourists, who on summer weekends often outnumber the local flora and fauna. Uptown discotheques feature hippie bands. From jukeboxes and transistors across the nation pulses the turned-on sound of acid-rock groups: the Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Dow Jones and the Industrials, Moby Grape (there is also a combo called Time...
...aggressive agglomerate of some 50 East Village hippies-many of them from the Middle West-turns out everything from silk-screen prints to psychedelic artifacts and a deadly serious, tidily edited magazine called Innerspace. The tribe's seven-man combo plays to packed and palpitating houses at such uptown discotheques as Cheetah...
...William S. Vaughn made it clear that Kodak had no intention of restoring the agreement. With that, Florence called for a protest pilgrimage of Negroes to Rochester on July 24, the third anniversary of the city's riots. Meanwhile, Kodak has hired a Harlem-based public relations firm, Uptown Associates, to promote its products in "ethnic markets"-apparently in hopes of forestalling any Negro boycott. Otherwise, the company is conducting business as usual. The man who signed the controversial document is still on the job. And Kodak expects to go on quietly recruiting Negro employees through other community agencies...
...storming through. Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, the shaggy-surreal saga of a Village idiot who hopes to get rich quick by persuading female midgets to use contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...