Comments for Covering 1968

Comment on Ramparts: the Chicago convention issue, September 1968 by Jim Klimaski

Jim Klimaski — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:41:23 +0000

I have a framed Ramparts Wall Poster, “Teargas in the Pump Room.” My most prized possession from the Chicago Convention. I was glad my little Jesuit college had a subscription to the magazine while I was the head student librarian.

Comment on Rowan & Martin’s “Laugh-In,” LP album, 1968 by Ian Measures

Ian Measures — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:10:07 +0000

I have both the \Rowan & Martin\ (1968) LP and the \Rowan & Martin 1969\ LP. I have recently converted them both to CD’s which I can play in my car. Is this a record?

Comment on Argosy magazine, August 1968 by bill ruddy

bill ruddy — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:33:30 +0000

I am looking for the story published in Argosy Magazine around 1963 to 1965 entitled something like.”:Night Comes to Whitewater Bay” and is abut a logging operation on Admiralty Island, Alaska. If anyone can tell me whee I can locate a copy, I would appreciate it. Thanks Bill Ruddy

Comment on First U.S. adult heart transplant, January 6, 1968 by John Vanek

John Vanek — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:56:04 +0000

Thanks to rapid advancement in heart transplant techniques, my grandmother has already added 19 years to her life. She received her new heart with only a couple weeks left to live, according to her doctors. I was only six at the time. Because of her new heart she got to see me graduate high school, then college, and she might just make it to see me get married this year. Yet another reason to love the ’60s…

Comment on “The Big Costume Put-On,” Sat Eve Post, July 27, 1968 by Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:07:40 +0000

This was my favorite magazine cover. Along with Herb Alpert’s “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” album cover it is an iconic memory of my youth.

Comment on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on LOOK, February 6, 1968 by Jeanette

Jeanette — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:48:03 +0000

I have been involved with other alternative movements for decades, but never came across one with the heart the TM movement displays. I attribute this to the loving energy of its founder Maharishi. From my experience observing this organization through The Maharishi University of Management for four years, Maharishi’s pure loving nature created an energy that allowed a generous kind organization to grow more than any other alternative organization of its type in the world.The combination of meditation with a practical organic and sustainable lifestyle is unsurpassed in terms of what they offer to the world for education and community. My daughter, Samantha, benefited tremendously attending school here. I am forever grateful to the Maharishi for helping make this possible and all the people working in this organization.

Comment on AVANT-GARDE, No. 4, September 1968 by Jim Tobias

Jim Tobias — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:22:25 +0000

I knew Jeffrey Weinper at summer camp a few years earlier. He was the smartest, funniest, most thoughtful young person I had met. He played war simulations on his bed, using historical texts for accuracy, with spent .22 shells from our rifle range to represent the lines of opposing forces. He once shackled a groggy, much-hated counselor to the camp flagpole. He chided a bunch of young camper savages who were torturing a frog in a can of gasoline that they were tempting a Buddhist hell where each cruelty they had done was done to them. I’m sure that was the first time I heard the word ‘karma’.

When I found this article in Avant Garde years after it was published, I instantly recognized Jeffrey’s voice. I mourned his death, but couldn’t help feeling that his hubris had led him to it, and that the waste was his folly. Now I’m not so sure.

Anyway, his family maintains a creative writing scholarship in his name, and I urge you to donate to it:
A JEFFREY WEINPER MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST
27 MIDWOOD CROSS
ROSLYN, NY
11576-2432

Comment on RCA Victor Record Club advertisement, May 1968 by RobGems.ca

RobGems.ca — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:56:20 +0000

11/29/10
Interesting thing about that RCA Record club Ad: All those well-known RCA artists at the time and not ONE mention of Elvis or his albums! Did Colonel Tom parker prevent RCA from doing this sort of exploitation, prefering to do it himself (for Elvis’ Sake, but more for the Colonel himself.)

Comment on Argosy magazine, August 1968 by Marylin Batt

Marylin Batt — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:08:36 +0000

At a magazine wholesalers convention sometime in the late ’60’s my mother won a La Salle shotgun, supposedly the first one imported into this country, and it was presented by Louis L’Amour. There was supposedly a photo of this along with either an ad or article in Argosy magazine. The photo has been lost since her death and I am hoping to find an old or microfilmed copy with this photo. I am hoping someone might be able to track down the article. I have been unable to find anything on the internet, although I still have the shotgun. As my mom was 4′10 and Louis L’Amour was probably 6′6. It was really an amazing photo.
Thanks for anyone’s help.
Marylin

Comment on Coronet, September 1968 by Joe Hoover

Joe Hoover — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:19:53 +0000

I actually never knew the magazine. I just remember the paper towel and the jingle by Rosemary Clooney - ♫ “Extra Value is what you get when you buy Coronet” ♪