Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classified ad you mention [April 26] as the secret source of the epidemic of sick stickers sweeping the country is tucked away not only in the Village Voice (circ. 25,000), but also in the latest issue of the Wretched Mess News (circ. 97½ paid and 2,345 moochers...
...Wretched Research Department may have miscalculated. According to Charlie Hollis, the $8.26 ad Underground Press placed in the Maypril issue of the Wretched Mess News has pulled no orders...
...FOAM-RUBBER CUSHIONS. Neither soft nor comfortable, the new cushions spring disconcertingly back into their original inhospitable form, seem visually as uninviting as a concrete slab with the un-touched-by-human-bottom appearance of an ad in a homemakers' magazine...
This classified ad tucked away in Manhattan's weekly Village Voice (circulation: 25,000) is the secret source of an epidemic of sick stickers now appearing in public and private places all the way from San Francisco to St. Thomas. And behind the ad is the private crusade of a gentle-faced, disheveled Greenwich Villager named Charlie Hollis, 37, who writes advertising copy and spends his nights as a Brooklyn College sophomore when he isn't trying to darken the corner where...
...academic training succeeded as well. Richard was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford. The R.A.F. conveniently provided a scholarship, indenturing him to air service later on. He had to wait two terms before he would actually be in statu pupillari, so he answered an ad in Wales's Western Mail, placed by Actor Emlyn Williams, seeking a young Welsh actor for a play called The Druid's Rest. He got the part and spent five months in the West End, going up to Oxford as a slightly seasoned professional...