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My second consecutive post with local news. I’m regressing to my stint in radio!

The last time Market Basket was featured here was eight years ago.

Market Basket orders customers back to stores!

I was a Market Basket customer for ten years, until moving almost 25 years ago. The supermarket’s slogan, frequently announced in the store, was “More For Your Dollar,” but pronounced as written in the title.

I once caught a Market Basket employee tearing off the label from a cut of meat on its expiration date and replacing it with a new label. When the store stopped carrying a favorite variety of frozen yogurt, my wife was told Kemps stopped making it. She called Kemps and was told, “Yes, but we stopped making that flavor several years ago! Where were you buying it?”

One of my sisters has been a Market Basket customer for much longer than I was, and she says the stores have been very good for a long time. I wonder if that was thanks to the leadership of Artie T.? Perhaps the answer is in this documentary.

My Watergate Day

John and Maureen Dean at the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 1973.

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is, I suppose, a good time to mention the day I spent with John Dean. As president of the college’s so-called Economics Society, I sponsored Dean for a campus lecture.

A previous guest speaker had been Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, but what did John Dean have to do with Economics? Nothing directly, but the faculty advisor, Dr. Darrow, was hot to talk with Dean.

It was a very interesting day, and a very long day. I have a newspaper clipping somewhere about Dean’s talk that includes a photo of him that I arranged to have taken. If I find it I’ll post a scan and have a bit more to say.

Colbert Clips

Rather than mentioning that Lauren Boebert has never been a prostitute, and that she didn’t have two abortions, Stephen Colbert explores Lauren’s deep and abiding faith in God and Guns.

And here we see why Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks has been absent from the Playtone Records station wagon. He’s been canoodling with Colbert!

From MAD to Watergate

In celebration — if that’s the right word — of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, the Washington Post features eight cartoons, including this Time magazine cover by Jack Davis.

From the Washington Post: In Davis’s Time cover, the conspirators encircling Nixon are, clockwise from upper left: James McCord, Jeb Magruder, H.R. Haldeman, John Dean, John Mitchell and Maurice Stans. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine; Estate of Jack Davis 1973)

An iconic Davis magazine cover — rendered for Time in April 1973 beneath the headline “Watergate Breaks Wide Open,” and now in the Portrait Gallery’s exhibit — imagines a circle of conspirators ensnared in its tools of taping and surveillance, each finger-pointing at someone else. The art nods to an 1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, who was skewering the fiscal chicanery of William “Boss” Tweed’s corrupt Tammany Hall political machine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/16/cartoons-watergate-nixon-herblock/