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		<title>Odds-On Favorite Retires From Column</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/08/04/odds-on-favorite-retires-from-column/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the News celebrates the 50th anniversary of its longest-running feature, the “I Make the Odds” column penned since July of 1958 by Harvey Preakston. Preakston, a graduate of City College and the son of former rugby impresario Reginald Preakston, joined the paper in 1955 as a young sports reporter who was assigned to cover Mighty Elms games. However, he soon proved to be somewhat uncanny as a prognosticator, and his reputation as being able to lay astonishingly precise odds on upcoming sporting events soon spilled over from the office to his column. So accurate were his predictions that he was thrice investigated by the city’s police department and once by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who compelled him to sign a statement that he was not acting in cahoots with any organized crime syndicate. After correctly predicting the winner of every World Series from 1955 to 1958 within one month of the start of the season, his astonishing ability to figure the odds netted him his very first column. Thanks to ongoing suspicions regarding the pernicious influence of gamblers and other shady criminal types, the News was obligated to include, at the top of every “I Make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Montgomery, Our Own Eliot Spitzer</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/03/17/mayor-montgomery-our-own-eliot-spitzer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unfortunate situation with New York&#8217;s Governor Eliot Spitzer has reminded some of a similar controversy which rocked our city in the early 80s. Popular Republican state Representative Karl Montgomery was elected to the mayor&#8217;s office in 1980 and had a relatively low-key, yet effective, first year in office. Then, in February of 1982, he suddenly resigned for no apparent reason, at what has come to be known in local political and journalistic circles as The Lunch. On February 2, Montgomery was scheduled to give a speech at the annual membership luncheon for the Pinion Club, an organization for city business leaders. This had been a yearly tradition for the twenty-seven years of the club&#8217;s existence and pretty much ran to the same routine every single time- mayor comes up, talks about the importance of business and commerce, tells a few good-natured jokes, maybe mentions some new policy initiative, serve dessert, end of luncheon. On this day, however, Montgomery took the podium, gripped it nervously and began his planned speech. After the first few sentences, he started railing about the &#8220;jackals of the press amongst us,&#8221; &#8220;certain moral lapses&#8221; and, almost tearfully, said that he hoped it would not come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Aside</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/21/a-brief-aside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello- here is a bit of non City-related news. As you may have heard, there is a writers strike currently on. This video, The Mighty Pencil (featuring titles by The City Desk graphics department), shows how you can support the writers of your favorite tele-vision programs. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GggokNW-4c] Again, that address is pencils2mediamoguls.com. This strike is a very important one- much more information can be found at the Writers Guild web site. Thank you for your attention in this matter. - RJ White, Editor, The City Desk]]></description>
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		<title>What A Character! &#8211; Fatty Turkey</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/19/what-a-character-fatty-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. From the annals of spokesfigures whose time had come and gone before they&#8217;d even arrived, there&#8217;s Fatty Turkey, the eponymous mascot of Fatty Turkey Brand Whole Frozen Turkeys. A subsidiary spawned from McLaren Preservatives, the Fatty Turkey Brand was the brainchild of founder and then-president Leland McLaren, who&#8217;d decided to expand his modest nitrate and polysodium empire into the market which his goods typically serviced. Debuting in freezer sections in 1977 &#8211; during the height of the health-conscious mania gripping thirties-bound baby boomers &#8211; McLaren&#8217;s advertisedly bad-for-you birds may have seemed a counter-intuitive comestible. Leland&#8217;s reasoning was, as he stated in a company newsletter and PR release later that year, &#8220;to reclaim the word &#8216;fat&#8217; from the doomsayers and finger-wagglers.&#8221; The 131-pound, six-foot-two McLaren &#8211; then fifty-five years old &#8211; continued, &#8220;When I was a boy, &#8216;fat&#8217; meant healthy! &#8216;Fat&#8217; meant robust! We all drooled at the thought of a fat, juicy chicken for dinner or a nice, fat goose for Christmas.&#8221; Essential to McLaren&#8217;s campaign to reclaim the luxurious implication of the long-since demonized word, pot-bellied Fatty Turkey himself was stamped onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeedlesCon 2007</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/01/deedlescon-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s once again time to grab your frying pan hats and potted mint plants; DeedlesCon is back in town! Celebrating its twentieth year of operation, DeedlesCon is a chance for memorabilia collectors and fans alike to come together and share their love of locally created comic strip icon Junior Deedles. Probably best known for being the one comic strip which New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia refused to read over the radio during a 1945 newspaper strike (“I, er, won’t read this one” explained the mayor, without further comment, before moving on to Li’l Abner), Junior Deedles was actually a wildly popular strip during most of its forty-seven continuous years of publication. Created by local cartoonist Fred P Skates, Junior Deedles made his debut as the so-called “Canny Oaf” in Skates’ then-titled Humorous Junction comic strip. Within three years, by 1927, Junior Deedles had acquired his name, “adopted” the first of his Magical Mint Plants “Julia,” and had proven so popular that the Humorous Junction strip was renamed in his honor. Skates perished in 1959 from complications related to a case of Queensland Fever contracted when he was a child, but Junior Deedles lived on via a long series of replacement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: &#8220;Bleeping Kids, Bleeping Bleep Ducks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/06/22/friday-facts-bleeping-kids-bleeping-bleep-ducks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Number of times that there have been cited (by the FCC) instances of accidental profanity on local newscasts- 31 :: Number of these which have resulted in the firing of a local anchor/reporter- 1 (Arthur Stevens, in what has come to be known as the &#8220;4-H Incident,&#8221; 1983) :: Advertising on public transit, by type- 45% Health Care/Rehabilitation Facilities, 30% Legal Services, 12% Fast Food, 5% Entertainment/Movies, 2% Public Transit, 6% Other. :: Number of restaurants classified specifically under the &#8220;Chop Suey&#8221; catrgory in local directories: 1, University Chop Suey :: Years that Sparman&#8217;s Records (closing for good this Sunday at 10pm) has been in business- 58 :: Years Sparman&#8217;s has been in their current University Center location- 56 :: Starting Monday, the City News Vendors Association (CNVA), a loose conglomeration of 213 newsstand operators enacts a new regulation &#8220;to obscure excessive cleavage and/or sexually suggestive content on the covers of periodicals within plain view of the public.&#8221; As a compromise, judgment on what should be covered will be left to individual CNVA vendors. - R. White]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: Sour Grapes Magee</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/21/what-a-character-sour-grapes-magee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new recurring series in which we take a look back at the city&#8217;s most familiar advertising icons. “Aw … PHOOEY!” The Silent Life of Sour Grapes Magee Long-time residents of the city may recall that the dour-faced figure painted on the side of the Lowell Furniture Warehouse – just east of Southwest South Street, by exit 588 – not only once had a name, he had a voice. For youngsters and newcomers, however, he’s just a puzzle – with a grimace marring his cowlicked head, arm raised in a dismissive wave – the almost entirely silent mascot whose painted profanity of “Aw Phooey” being the only, utterly ambiguous clue behind his connection to a local furniture magnate. He is Sour Grapes Magee, and there was a time when he was the talk of the town. David Floyd Lowell, grand old man of the Lowell Furniture empire, opened his first store on the first floor of a modest three-story brick building in the ritzy 117th Avenue district (converted into a portion of the fourteen-story Golda Meir industrial complex in 1978). Welcoming customers through an impressive set of double doors, Lowell had a beautiful picture window by which to display his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something To Which You Should Listen</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/02/06/something-to-which-you-should-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, I had to rent a car and drive out to the western part of the state on business, as the company wouldn&#8217;t spring for a train ticket. On hour four of my trip, tooling down the interstate, I had the radio set on scan, flipping between the frequencies, looking for anything at all to relieve the grinding boredom. Suddenly, at 1420 AM, the radio stopped in the middle of &#8220;Express Yourself&#8221; by Charles Wright &#38; The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band. Needless to say, I was a bit surprised and almost broke the damn thing trying to lock it in, convinced that I&#8217;d found the holy grail of in-the-middle-of-nowhere awesome radio stations. Once the song ended, though, it went right into a talk show and I figured that my glory was short-lived. I was wrong. What followed was one of the best examples of small-town talk radio I had ever heard. &#8220;Hudson and Gaines&#8221; broadcasts on Great Haven&#8217;s WBFK (&#8220;Your home for old-school funk and Bush Pilots baseball.&#8221;), hosted by local hardware magnate/conservative Mike Hudson and Great Haven Community College instructor/liberal Craig Gaines. Luckily, they have a web site and there are a few episodes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Legends: Kiddie TV Murder, Satanists in the City</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/02/05/urban-legends-kiddie-tv-murder-satanists-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an overview of some of the most well-known urban legends to haunt our city—none are true, but they reflect the fears and excitement of bygone times. Kiddie TV Murder (1957) Mystery has long swirled around the death of children’s TV personality Samantha Smith, who was found murdered in her home on June 28th, 1957. Smith was the host of the smash hit Dominick and Doofus, which featured two feuding puppets and poorly animated cartoons. After missing that morning’s broadcast, Smith was discovered in her bedroom nude, with marionette strings wrapped around her throat. The lurid details of her death quickly found their way to the front page of every paper in town. The police investigation was soon stymied, and rumors about the identity of her killer ran rampant. One often repeated allegation featured &#8220;happily&#8221; married Sen. Phinneas DeMink, a state legislator who had been linked romantically to Smith. It was believed that she had been killed because she was about to go public with their affair, thus ruining DeMink’s political career. There was no truth to this rumor, and DeMink was eventually cleared, but the incident did end his career in politics. Another scenario circulated involving the producers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out you two pixies go- through the door, or out the window</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/26/out-you-two-pixies-go-through-the-door-or-out-the-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salon: All hail Pottersville! In Capra&#8217;s Tale of Two Cities, Pottersville is the Bad Place. It&#8217;s the demonic foil to Bedford Falls, the sweet, Norman Rockwell-like town in which George grows up. Named after the evil Mr. Potter, Pottersville is the setting for George&#8217;s brief, nightmarish trip through a world in which he never existed. In that alternative universe, Potter has triumphed, and we are intended to shudder in horror at the sinful city he has spawned &#8212; a kind of combo pack of Sodom, Gomorrah, Times Square in 1972, Tokyo&#8217;s hostess district, San Francisco&#8217;s Barbary Coast ca. 1884 and one of those demon-infested burgs dimly visible in the background of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. There&#8217;s just one problem: Pottersville rocks! (via)]]></description>
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