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Where did it all begin? No one seems quite sure, but Ken Fairchild of New York City's radio station WMCA has a theory. In 1964, he recalls, WMCA created a Smilie similar to the curren version as part of a promotion campaign for the Good Guys, the station's disk-jockey team at the time. "Ours had a few wisps of hair on the top," he recalls, "and I think it was cuter." WMCA handed out thousands of Good Guy sweatshirts during the 1964-66 period and a few still can be seen around the city today...
...Straus, wife of the president of Radio Station WMCA, is a dry-minded girl who decided a year and a half ago to "bring about a system to end all the chaos." With a volunteer staff of 25 (including socialites and civic leaders), one secretary (Columnist Max Lerner's daughter) and five telephones, Call for Action set up shop. Sparked by spot announcements over (naturally) WMCA assuring listeners that a phone call to the group would expedite a complaint, Call has handled complaints from nearly 15,000 natives suddenly afforded a sympathetic ear and, more important, the name...
...Greenwich Village Villager, which was not affected by the strike. On 42nd Street, Stern's department store installed eight pretty girls in show windows to chalk sales specials on blackboards, got so much response that the girls may be used even after the newspapers are back. Radio station WMCA began selling retail announcements on a half-hour program hitherto devoted to public service, sold all available time 48 hours in advance...
Only two hours before he was attacked last week, Riesel gave an example of his blunt, sometimes overdramatic technique on a broadcast over radio station WMCA. He attacked William De Koning Jr., head of the Operating Engineers' Local 138 on Long Island, and De Koning's father, an ex-convict labor boss. Also on the program was Emanuel Muravchik, field director of the Jewish Labor Committee, who talked of discrimination against Negro labor in the South...
...Hospital, his eyes covered with bulky bandages. Doctors were not sure whether his sight could be saved; nor would the police admit to any leads on his attacker. But the price on the attacker's head was mounting fast. Rewards posted by the Hall Syndicate, the Mirror, station WMCA, labor unions (including De Koning's), and a crowd of press groups and newspapers totaled...