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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After some months of mental thrashing, an idea, full-armed but of unfettered simplicity, sprang from Dorothy's head. Last week, she called Newsday, a Hempstead, L.I. tabloid,* and said she wanted to place an ad. She would marry any man who would support her and the children and give her $10,000 cash, right away. Newsday refused the ad, but ran the story. All at once, Dorothy was famous-well, talked about. Reporters came to interview her, and photographers to take her picture. She submitted with garrulous assurance, was photographed from many angles and in negligee...
...million chapel where Hummers meet for prayer and hymns, but where no minister has ever set foot, Harry Truman ended his visit to the Hum. After a happy day "knee-high in boys," he had tried Hum-Muds-the college's special ginger cakes. Then he ad-libbed nostalgically of the days when he was a boy and milked cows, split wood, cleaned oil lamps. Things were different now: "this great country has only started on its career . . . Oh," cried the President, "I wish I were 18 . . . I wish I had the same opportunities that you have...
...pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This finding may not mean much to you but we happened to have an odd copy of The New Yorker around at the time and it, too, had a Steuben Glass ad on page three. Naturally this aroused us somewhat and the case was settled when we found...
...magazine for Hollywood intellectuals, was revived 14 months ago by bouncy Robert L. Smith, carnation-sporting general manager of the Los Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
Hollywood, which has everybody in the country looking over its shoulder, from the U.S. Congress to small-town ladies' clubs, sometimes feels pretty sorry for itself. Last week The Screen Writer ran a want ad...