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Known to the Negroes as "Ajax, the White Knight," Groppi found a valid local cause in the quest for an open-housing ordinance. Mrs. Vel Phillips, 43, a pretty Negro who is Milwaukee's only black alderman, has five times proposed that such a measure be debated by the 19-member common council; each time she was put down by a vote of 18 to 1. Groppi leaped into the issue like an avenging angel. As a result, says U.S. Representative Clem Zablocki, who speaks in Congress for most of Milwaukee's South Side, much of the city...
...week's end "Ajax" Groppi's commandos-reinforced by some 1,200 civil rights enthusiasts-once more marched through the South Side in an effort to obtain an open-housing ordinance. It is not likely to come until either Groppi cools down or the city's white majority shows more sympathy to the complaints of its Negro neighbors...
Sophocles' Ajax was also taken off the boards, as was Euripides' Phoenician Women. Aristophanes' bawdy political satires, The Birds, The Clouds and The Frogs, got the hook at the Athens Festival...
Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...White Knight. Admen are divided about the tie between sex and sales. One who uses sexy ads is Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel. Norman, according to a probably apocryphal industry story, put some sex into soap advertising with the Ajax White Knight (symbolizing strength and power) after a psychiatrist told him that 90% of housewives would like to supplement their sex lives. "Sex has always been a part of advertising," says Norman, "but it has usually stayed on the fringe. Now we are encouraging our copywriters to talk more openly and liberally about...