Word: utica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroin hidden in the car. Before his trial, Angelvin was held as a material witness in several New York City lockups; after being sentenced to five years, he served time in Sing Sing and Dannemora, with occasional side trips to such jails as the smart, brand-new one in Utica, which he regarded as well "worth a special visit...
...Utica Jail: Completely automated, but the equipment was not then fully understood by the guards...
...commercials in the past six years, is obsessed with detail; he shoots 9,000 ft. of film to get a usable 90 ft. He demands that his sets have a lived-in look-right down to scuff marks on the door. For a takeoff on old aviation movies for Utica Club beer, he screened the 1938 movie Test Pilot to see exactly how Clark Gable flipped back his goggles. For a series of quick shots focusing on a variety of stomachs for Alka-Seltzer, he spent ten days "interviewing abdomens," auditioned 40 belly dancers until he found one without stretch...
This spring Washington's Corcoran Gallery put on the first exhibition of Woodville's work to appear since his death in 1855, next week sends the show off to Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery, and from there to Utica, N.Y., Atlanta and Brooklyn. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is currently showing Mount's Cider Making, which it recently discovered in Portchester, N.Y., and bought for its collection. Even the White House is interested, has included Mount and Woodville on a list of 22 U.S. artists that it would like to add to its own collection...
...help word of such coups get around, Founder Wells issued a sort of Madison Avenue manifesto promising more Braniff-style "advertising that will generate, as a byproduct, its own publicity." Western Union, Burma Shave and La Rosa spaghetti, she says, came clamoring for "a Braniff or an Alka-Seltzer." Utica Club beer signed up with the explanation that "it is once in a decade that an agency like this is formed...