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...holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily, the new Mirror contrasted sharply with the stout, dull Times. The Mirror gave the news a bright, if not particularly thorough, play, and after the paper switched to standard size...
Culver is a 1,400-acre complex of parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only...
Knee-Deep in Arts. Opened in 1894, Culver owes its military hue to Founder Henry Harrison Culver, a prosperous St. Louis stovemaker, who for his health roughed it one summer on Lake Maxinkuckee. Culver soon zestfully launched a chautauqua, wound up with a military academy. He aimed to blend liberal and Christian education, using military discipline "because of its peculiar advantage in bringing out the best results in the development of boys...
...exaggerations. But while the hyperbole count was down, the sound of superlatives was as loud as ever. Examples: "World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest and purest" (a car), "most useable, liveable, likeable" (another car), "most mysterious" (a cosmetic), "most heavenly drink on earth" (a blend of gin, herbs and fruit flavoring). Said New Yorker Advertising Director A. J. Russell Jr., drawing on the wisdom of 33 years' experience: "We never win completely...
...Samuel Abbott has transformed himself into a most excellently bloated and insufferable Tolloller. He has managed, somehow, to blend the most absurd elements of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov into one vast horror of inane snobbery and scented incompetence. Only Mr. Abbott's Tolloller could have successfully produced, as he did, the quintessential Gilbertian line: "We were boys together;--at least...