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Much of Alsop's campaign has been conducted in similar humor. Thus a factory worker in Litchfield, having just received a political leaflet from the candidate's own hand, sneered: "I guess you're for God, motherhood and country, ain't you?" Retorted Alsop: "That's right. And I'm also against man-eating sharks." An hour later, Alsop approached a suburban housewife near Torrington and said: "Have one of my biographies, madam. There's not a lie in it. A few exaggerations, perhaps...
Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...
...radio commercials proclaimed that a vote against Marvin Griffin was a vote for Negroes next door and on the playing fields of Georgia. Ex-Governor Griffin, running for a return trip to Atlanta, assured an audience that there was only one way to handle integrationist "agitators." Said he: "There ain't but one thing to do and that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin...
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin and a gang of French comedians manufacture $2,000,000 worth of guldens-and that ain't mustard...
Money, Money, Money. Jean Gabin and a gang of French comedians manufacture $2,000,000 worth of guldens-and that ain't mustard...