The Milwaukee Journal

 USA

 
The Journal was started in 1882, in competition with four other English-language, four German- and two Polish-language dailies. At its circulation peak in the early 1960s, the Journal sold about 400,000 copies daily and 600,000 on Sunday. The Journal was a Monday-through-Saturday afternoon broadsheet, containing its distinctive Green Sheet, also publishing Sunday mornings. Though circulation had declined from its peak, it still held a rare position for an afternoon paper, dominating its market up until 1995, when the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel were consolidated. (wikipedia)

1971 December 5

 

On Tour With the Mothers of Invention
By John Carman, pp Accent 1, 14, 15


Frank Zappa was slumped in the back seat of a Cadillac gliding in darkness over a Kansas City freeway.

He leaned silently against a window, sleepily watching the sweep of headlights and neon signs. Coca-Cola, Shell Oil, Holiday Inn. . . .

As the founder and leader of a rock group called the Mothers of Invention, Zappa is the musician who has bestowed on the world such songs as “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask,” “My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama” and “Willie the Pimp.” (read more)

 
 

1988 November 8

 

Frank Zappa's Getting Out The Vote (!)
By Joe Morgenstern, pp 1E, 12E


 WHEN YOU buy a cassette of “Video From Hell,” a recent product of Frank Zappa’s imagination, funny bone and bile, a gift comes with it: a pair of cardboard “No-D” glasses that you assemble by pushing little tabs through little slots. The instructions for this, and for attaching an ample cardboard nose modeled on Zappa’s own, are set forth in elaborate, deadpan detail.

One note at the bottom of the instruction sheet, though, has nothing to do with No-D and everything to do with Zappa’s latest overmastering obsession:

“Register to vote and read the Constitution before it’s void where prohibited by law.” (read more)