People from Clinton County, Ohio - Addison Peale Russell, Alfred G. Allen, Biff Wysong, Bud Brown (Politician), Calvin Cowgill, Charles Q. Hildebrant, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 19. Chapters: Addison Peale Russell, Alfred G. Allen, Biff Wysong, Bud Brown (politician), Calvin Cowgill, Charles Q. Hildebrant, Clarence J. Brown, Cliff Rosenberger, David Fisher (politician), DeVone Claybrooks, Don DeVoe, Dwight Wallace, Francis A. Waller, Frank L. McVey, James Henry Garland, John Quincy Smith, John R. Ellis, John S. Savage, Kroger Babb, Matthew Denver, Michael Bray, Michael DeForest Wilson, Norris Turney, Robert E. Doan, Russell Janney, Stephanie Hodge, William Addison Dwiggins. Excerpt: Howard W. "Kroger" Babb (December 30, 1906 - January 28, 1980) was an American film and television producer and showman. His marketing techniques were similar to a travelling salesman's, with roots in the medicine-show tradition. Self-described as "America's Fearless Young Showman," he is best known for his presentation of the 1945 exploitation film Mom and Dad, which was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2005. Babb was involved in the production and marketing of many films and television shows, promoting each according to his favorite marketing motto: "You gotta tell 'em to sell 'em." His films ranged from sex education-style dramas to "documentaries" on foreign cultures, intended to titillate audiences rather than to educate them, maximizing profits via marketing gimmicks. Babb was born in 1906 in Lees Creek, Ohio, USA (near Wilmington). He earned the nickname "Kroger" either from his childhood job at the grocer of the same name or from his father's preference for B.H. Kroger coffee. Babb held a number of jobs during his youth, gaining a mention in Ripley's Believe It Or Not for refereeing a record number of youth sports games. He started out with jobs in sportswriting and reporting at a local newspaper in his 20s, and even showed signs of his later work while showcasing "Digger" O'Dell, the "living corpse," but first achieved success after his promotion to publicity manager for the Chakeres-Warners movie theaters, where he would create different kinds of stunts to lure audiences - for example, giving two bags of groceries to ticket holders in the theaters. These experiences led him to the exploitation film business. In the early 1940s Babb joined Cox and Underwood, a company that obtained the rights to poorly made or otherwise unmarketable films of subjects that were potentially controversial or shocking. It would often remove entire sections of these films and add material such as medical reels that lent itself to sensational prom