Off On Comedian Stan Freberg Brings Kookiness to Ads
Stan Freberg, once an underemployed comic, turned to writing TV commercials. His Ballantine beer spots feature a faux president confiding in his psychiatrist about life and in laws. Freberg notes his wife’s relatives altered the brew formula, and sales plummeted.
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Stan Freberg
John
Marsha
Herman
Ballantine
John J. Waldron
Freberg
Pacific Air Lines
Pacific
Pasadena
Calif
Henry Morgan
NBC
Jack Benny
CBS
Indiana finds FY68 69 revenue beat forecasts
Indiana state tax collections totaled 761.7 million for the year ending June 30 1969 up from 712.9 million in 1968. Sales tax rose 7 percent to 199.4 million while individual and corporate income taxes also climbed. Inheritance tax dropped 28 percent to 15.6 million.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
James C. Mathis
Mathis
Heyerdahls Boat Heads For Barbados
Thor Heyerdahl and six crewmen sailed their damaged reed boat Ra toward Barbados with a sail rigged between oars. They planned to sleep aboard the escort Shenandoah and believed Egyptian papyrus boats could reach the New World long before Columbus.
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St. Croix Island
Shenandoah
Heyerdah
New World
Barbados
Venezuela
Heverdah
Central America
Oslo
Norway
Norman Baker
New Rochelle
N.Y
Baker
GOP Lawmaker Attacks Whitcomb Over Poverty March
Indiana Republican Rep. David L. Allison accused Gov. Edgar Whitcomb of ridiculing grievances after a weekend antipoverty march. Allison said the governor, away at a conference, implied marchers favor lawlessness and claimed the poor and Black communities are well provided for.
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Indianapolis
Edgar D. Whitcomb
David L. Allison
Whitcomb
Allison
Jacobs Keeps Offices Open Monday After Apollo 11 Holiday
Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr. said his Washington and Indianapolis offices will stay open Monday despite the Apollo 11 holiday. He asserted astronauts’ hard work should not be used as an excuse for taking off.
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Washington
UPI
Andrew Jacobs Jr
D-Ind
Indianapolis
Jacobs
Besieged Gibraltar Remains Cut Off From Europe
The Rock of Gibraltar endures siege as Spain blocks the isthmus and ferry service. Britain maintains sovereignty with the Union Jack flying over the peninsula. A referendum showed Gibraltarians voting to remain British by a wide margin.
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Gibraltar
Europe
Rock of Gibraltar
Spain
Britain
North Africa
Morocco
Straits
Tariq ibn-Ziyad
Jabal Tariq
Rock
London
United Nations
The
Move Brings Warning From Catholic Spokesman
The Associated Press reports President Nixon aims to provide birth control information to all American women but faces a warning from a Roman Catholic spokesman who says such a program would raise concerns.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Author Warns Of Nationwide Red Conspiracy
G Edward Griffin speaker at Madison YMCA under TACT banner warned of Communist revolution in America. He described two channels of conspiracy violence and nonviolence, urged vigilance, and argued socialism equals Marxist control while urging preservation of American freedom.
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America
G. Edward Griffin
YMCA
Madison County Tact
Griffin
John Birch Society
Uncle Sam
United States
United Nations
U.S. Supreme Court
Donations Sought To Help Family Of Slain Policeman
The Fraternal Order of Police began soliciting donations for Patrolman Kenneth P. Stiverson's widow and six children after his death from a Thursday shooting by a former mental patient. Patrolman Marshal D. Heingartner, wounded but in satisfactory condition, aided by his pistol after the suspect Hollis Irby was killed. Indiana Governor Whitcomb appointed Mrs. David P. M. Stanton of Gary and Robert M. Curless of Wabash to four-year terms on the State Board of Public Welfare.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Order of Police
Kenneth P. Stiverson
Marshal D. Heingartner
Steverson
Heingartner
Hollis Irby
GET Welfare Posts
Indianapolis
UPI
David PM. Stanton
Gary
Robert M. Curless
Wabash
Whitcomb
Indiana State Board of Public Welfare
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Jacquin Sanders
Newsweek Feature
Freberg Ltd
Mounds Mall
Anderson
Heyerdahls
GOP
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio Secretary of State
Gary Miracle
Anderson Composite Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
D.C
Canal Zone
Lima
Peru
Miracle
U.S
Spiro T. Agnew
Air Force
Panama
William
Billy) Mitchell
Amelia Earhart
Herald
Msgr
Hugh Curran
Roman Catholic
Archdiocesan Family Life Bureau
New York
Msgr. Curran
Mary Calderone
Siecus—Sex Information and Education Council of the
Alan F. Guttmacher
Planned Parenthood
C. Kilmer Myers
Episcopal Diocese of
California
Episcopal
Church
Congress
Family Life Bureau
National Catholic Conference
Detroit
Charleszetta Waddles
Wyatt
Wyatt's
Roy
Price
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