Word: abt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although many private brands sell at lower prices, they are really a long-range detriment to the consumer, charges Henry Abt, president of the Brand Names Foundation. Says he: "Private labels ride the coattails of makers' brands. No private label past or present has ever pioneered a new product or improved an existing one." National food brands last year spent $105 million on research and development of new products and $476 million to advertise them. An estimated 33? of every dollar spent in supermarkets goes into products that did not exist ten years...
...critic once wrote that nothing was more tedious than mediocre poetry, and tedium sits like a lead bat on this reader's shoulder. Aside from two good poems from Daniel Langton and a garbled experiment in sound by C. C. Abt, the rest of Audience poetry ranges a dusty spectrum from the merely interesting to the very bad. Four poetesses help anchor down the ends...
...Frederick Wakeman, a Harvard junior. Wakeman is sandwiched between two long short stories, the first a pallid Hemingway without irony, called "The Leedhes." It begins with twenty-one simple sentences, stumbles along under a clock of belabored symbolism, and never quite gets on its feet again. C. C. Abt returns in the other effort to tell a long tale inadequately...
...Abt? At McAllen, Abel confessed his identity and his illegal entry into the U.S. But of espionage he would say nothing. Assistant Attorney General William Tompkins sped to New York from Washington, quickly secured the indictment, got Abel shipped back to Brooklyn for arraignment and trial. Soviet diplomats declared that they would have "nothing to do with the case," refused to send Abel a lawyer or a visa. Needing a defense attorney, Abel asked a U.S. marshal to contact "Abt." The only Lawyer Abt in the Manhattan telephone directory is John J. Abt, 53, longtime counsel for Communists. Said Abt...
...prose in this issue is more understandable than the poetry, but on the whole it is no more exciting. S. R. Abt has written a good description of an awkward scene between a man and his mistress. Although Abt's characterizations are good enough, he ends his story so abruptly that it is no more than a sketch...