Uncommon

Noticed this odd advertuary in a 1965 Record World.

MGM was selling a memorial record of Adlai’s speeches. The text is gloppy syrupy hagiography of an irrelevant loser. Stevenson carried the torch of Permanent War against non-interventionist Ike twice and lost twice. Truman was (barely) able to win in ’48 because he was definitely a Common Man, a businessman who retained his connection to midwestern farmers. When Permanent War and the Men Of Monopoly were represented by an elegant Harvard intellectual, there was no appeal at all.

The title is significant, presaging the D switch from FDR’s common man to the modern party solely representing the elite.

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Irrelevant language note: Looks like I invented the portmanteau advertuary. I figured it must already exist, but Google doesn’t find it.