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BLOEDE, Victor Gustav, advertising executive, was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 31, 1920, son of Victor Gustav and Helen (Yoh) Bloede, grandson of Victor Gustav and Elisa (Schon) Bloede, and great-grandson of Gustav and Marie Antoinette Franziska (Jugnitz) Bloede, who came to this country from Prussia (Germany) in the 1850's and settled in New York City. His grandfather (qv) was a chemist and philanthropist, and his father was a lawyer.

Victor G. Bloede received his preliminary education at Boys Latin School in Baltimore, after which he attended St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., during 1937-39 and the University of Maryland during 1939-41. While in college, he worked during the summer of 1940 as a reporter on the Vineyard Gazette, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and for a brief time in 1941 he worked in sales promotion for the Gulf Oil Co. in New York City He was also employed as a writer for a brief time in the latter year by a small publicity company in New York City.

During the Second World War he entered the U.S. Army in 1942, and after attending Officers' Candidate School at Ft. Knox, Ky., he was commissioned a 2d lieutenant and served as public relations officer for the 8th Armored Division in 1943. Transferred to the US Army Air Forces in 1943, he went through flight training and became a bombardier with the 8th Air Force


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in England, flying thirty-three missions over Germany before his discharge with the rank of captain in 1945. His decorations included the Air Medal with six oak-leaf clusters.

After his discharge he was a writer with Young & Myers, a public relations firm in New York City, during 1945-47, and in the latter year he joined French & Preston, a New York City advertising agency, as an account executive. Advanced to vice-president and copy chief in 1948, he remained in those positions until 1950, when he began a continuing association with Benton & Bowles, Inc., a large New York City advertising agency.

Beginning as a copywriter, he was advanced to copy-group head in 1950, to vice-president and creative supervisor in 1955, to copy chief and a member of the agency's plans board in 1957, to senior vice-president and director in 1959, to director of creative services in 1962, to executive vice-president in 1963, and to general manager and director of client services in 1967, a post he held until 1968. Additionally, during 1964-67 he was chairman of the agency's plans board.

Since 1968 Mr. Bloede has been president and chief executive officer of the agency. Benton & Bowles was founded in 1929 by William Benton and Chester Bowles. As a copywriter with this agency, Mr. Bloede wrote advertising for such institutional advertisers as the Association of American Railroads, the Bituminous Coal Institute, and the National Association of Manufacturers. As a copy-group head he wrote or supervised the preparation of advertising for Procter & Gamble's Zest toilet bar, Post cereals, Conoco gasoline, IBM typewriters, and Parliament cigarettes, and as creative supervisor he directed advertising for the last- named product, Schick razors, Studebaker automobiles, Maxwell House coffee, and Procter & Gamble's Tide, Zest, Ivory Snow, and Crest toothpaste.

As executive vice-president he was management supervisor of various Procter & Gamble brands, including Zest, Ivory Snow, Charmin, and Bonus. During 1950 to 1963 he was also associated with advertising and marketing successes for Texaco gasoline, Gaines dog food, and Chiffon margarine.

Under Mr. Bloede's leadership as president, the agency has greatly expanded its international operations, acquiring an office in Italy, three in Germany, and one each in France, Argentina, and Austria. The company also has offices in England, Belgium, Canada, and Netherlands, and in this country it has, besides its offices in New York City, an office in Hollywood, Calif. In addition to those mentioned, its clients include Allied Chemical Corp., Avis Rent A Car System, Inc., Chemical Bank, Vick Chemical Co., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., and General Foods Corp.

Among its notable advertising slogans are Texaco's "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" and Instant Maxwell House's "Cup and a half of flavor." With a worldwide gross billing of $182 million and some 1465 employees in 1968, the year Mr. Bloede became president, Benton & Bowles, the country's eleventh largest agency, had billings of over $220 million and 1700 employees in 1970.

Mr. Bloede was a contributing author to The Copywriter's Guide (1958), and he has written articles for such publications as Madison Avenue, Printers' Ink, Broadcasting, Television Age, and Advertising Age. A frequent speaker and lecturer before advertising, business, and other groups, he gave a speech entitled "Evaluating Agencies" before the Association of National Advertisers in 1969 and one entitled "If I Were a Client" before the National Industrial Conference Board in 1968.

In civic affairs he has served as a trustee of the American Fund of Dental Health since 1968, a director of the Travelers Aid Society of New York since 1969, and a member of the New York committee for the US Ski Team since 1970. He has been active in fund raising for the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Bloede is a director of the Association of American Advertising Agencies, the National Outdoor Advertising Bureau, and the American Advertising Federation and a member of Phi Sigma Kappa, the Sands Point (NY) Bath and Tennis and Sands Point Golf clubs, the Manhasset Bay (NY) Yacht Club, the Coral Beach Club of Bermuda, and the Economic Club of New York City. Politically he is a Republican.

His hobbies include collecting modern and French paper weights, and for recreation he enjoys swimming, playing golf, and reading. Mr. Bloede was married in Brady, Tex., Mar. 11, 1945, to Merle, daughter of Hulan Huie of Lohn, Tex., a rancher, and has two children: Victor Gustav and Susan Lohn.


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 * JOHN LAUGHTON (editor): At Tagus; 130 ships, 57,868 tons, 2,431 guns, 8,050 sailors, 18,973 soldiers, 1,382 volunteers & etc., 2,088 rowers, 30,493 total men. By the time of engagement; no more than 120 ships, and between 22,500 and 24,000 total men, with 10,000 to 12,000 fighting men.  English; less than 197 total ships, and total men of 17,000 to 18,000.


 * RIPLEY & DANA:


 * The fleet is therein stated to have consisted of 65 galleons and large ships, 25 vreas of 800 to 700 tons, 19 tenders of 70 to 100 tons, 13 small frigates, 4 galeasses and 4 galleys, in all 130 vessels, with a total tonnage of 75,868 tons.


 * They were armed with 2,431 guns, of which 1,497 were of bronze, mostly full cannon (48 pdrs.), culverines (long 80 and 20 pdrs.), &c.; the ammunition consisted of 123,790 round shot and 5,175 cwt. of powder, giving about 50 rounds per gnu, at an average charge of 4-1/2 lbs.


 * The ships were manned with 8,052 sailors, and carried 19,295 soldiers and 180 priests and monks. Mules, carts, &c, were on board to move the field artillery when landed. The whole was provisioned, according to the above authority, for 6 months. This fleet, unequaled in its time, was to proceed to the Flemish coast, where another army of 80,000 foot and 4,000 horse, under the duke of Parma, was to embark, under its protection, in flat-bottomed vessels constructed for the purpose, and manned by sailors brought from the Baltic. The whole were then to proceed to England.


 * In that country Queen Elizabeth had, by vigorous exertions, increased her fleet of originally 30 ships, to some 180 vessels of various sizes, but generally inferior in that respect to those of the Spaniards. They were, however, manned by 17,500 sailors, and therefore possessed far more numerous crews than the Spanish fleet. The English military force was divided into two armies, one, of 18,500 men, under the earl of Leicester, for immediately opposing the enemy; the other, 45,000, for the defense of the queen's person. According to a MS. in the British museum, entitled "Details of the English Force Assembled to Oppose the Spanish Armada," (MS. Reg. 18th c. xxi.), 2,000 infantry were also expected from the Low Countries.




 * DAVID MORRIS: 129 large fighting ships, armed with 2,430 cannon of brass and iron, and manned by 8,000 sailors. There were, besides, 19,000 soldiers, 1,000 gentlemen volunteers, 600 priests, servants, etc., and 2,000 slaves.


 * WILLIAM ADAMS: 129 ships (65 large galleons; 4 colossal galeasses; 4 large galleys, 56 armed merchant vessels; 20 caravels or pinnaces), 2,430 cannons, brass and iron; 22,000 soldiers, 1,000 gentlemen volunteers, 8,000 seamen, 1,600 various others.


 * ROBERT UNWIN: Spanish: about 130 ships with 8,000 sailors, 19,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 cannon.  English: 80 ships, 9,000 sailors.


 * WILLIAM COLLIER: 132 ships, 2,600 cannon, 8,000 sailors and galley slaves, 20,000 soldiers.


 * WALTER RALEIGH: 140 sail, more than 2,600 brass and iron ordinance, 8-to-9,000 sailors, 19,000 soldiers, then with slaves, priests, officers, servants, and other attendants, total men of between 30,000 and 32,000.

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Solomon (26 December 1925-26 April 2007), a disciple and proponent of Timothy Leary, had written and lectured throughout the 1960s about drugs (including cocaine and marijuana), and about the benefits of LSD, his main theses on in which he edited was entitled LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug (first published in 1964), with the introduction by Leary.

He came back to the U.S. and the Village in 1983. Died in New York City at the age of 81.

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1) Detective Sergeant Martyn Pritchard "Thames Valley Police". - Busted: The Sensational Life-Story of an Undercover Hippie Cop, Martyn Pritchard and Edward Laxton: Mirror Books, 1978, isbn 9780859391429

2) Aberystwyth or Machynlleth

3) Keep the money....


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