Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gelber notes that blacks commit 75% of the violent crime in Dade County, though they constitute only 15% of the population. But Cubans make up a third of the county's population and account for only 12% of the violent crime. The judge believes the strong Cuban family structure explains this
...there were some things over which the Harvard squad didn't have control. The Yale doubleheader, scheduled for Monday, May 9, was postponed to Tuesday, then Thursday on account of rain. It meant that Harvard would have to play five crucial Eastern League games in three days...
...brassy Denver Post. He soon became an ornament on William Randolph Hearst's New York American, along with Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner. Fowler's style was purple but compassionate: when Ruth Brown Snyder and her paramour Judd Gray were electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1928, his account of the execution-reprinted in full in this book-was a bitter indictment of capital punishment...
...founder and director of Foote, Cone & Belding, he maintained that an ad should be a simple "substitute for talking to someone." He helped make Sara Lee, Kotex, Kleenex, Hallmark, Sunkist and even the doomed Edsel household names, but perhaps his most famous ad was for the American Tobacco account: "With men who know tobacco best... it's Luckies two to one." Despite its title, Cone's autobiography, With All Its Faults: A Candid Account of Forty Years in Advertising, was an appreciation of his profession, although it excoriated the TV networks for exploiting the air waves for profit...
...game. And while the cheesy smell of old newsprint may be gone, along with the saintly aura that decades-old newsreel film seems to lend the athletes of a bygone era, there is still enough magic left in Kahn's writing to draw the reader into an account of the "new" game. Each chapter is an absorbing vignette, a lucid illustration rather than a pompous explanation, a group of baseball stories rather than sports theories...