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Editor DANIEL BOTTSTEIN JOHN KLEIN ALLAN RINDE BOB COHEN EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS MIKE MARTUCCI ANTHONY LANZETTA ADVERTISING BERNIE BLAKE Director of Advertising ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES STAN SOIFER, New York BILL STUPER, New York HARVEY GELLER, Hollywood WOODY HARDING Art Director COIN MACHINE & VENDING ED ADLUM Classics Are 'Now' General Manager BEN JONES, Editor CAMILLE COMPASIO, Chicago LISSA MORROW, Hollywood CIRCULATION THERESA TORTOSA, Mgr. CHICAGO HOLLYWOOD CAMILLE COMPASIO HARVEY GELLER Hollywood -style, pecially the Moog, are generating con- 29 E. Madison St. 6290 Sunset Blvd. Like the U.S. cavalry, Chicago 2, III. Hollywood, Calif. 90028 rescuing beleaguered pioneers just in siderable interest in "purist" (well, al- Phone: (312) FI 6-7272 Phone: (213) 465-2129 the nick of time, the contemporary most) adaptations of the classics. 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