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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...
According to Subscriber Müller, he had offered this transportation problem to others only to be told that none of the five airlines advertising direct routes to Europe via the Azores "takes passengers to this place . . ." Then he added: "On page 3 of the May 23 issue of TIME'S Latin American edition you ran a full-page ad of Pan American Airways, which said: THE BEST WAY IN THE WORLD TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Should Pan American Airways correct this ad...
...Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...
...listened idly to a rain crow's mourning call, and squinted at his herd of Jersey cows browsing on the green pastures. At 60 seconds past 6 a.m., preceded by eight bars of Dixie and a short commercial, Farm Editor Cope leaned toward a porch microphone and ad-libbed: "I never saw a prettier day . . ." By the. time his chatty half-hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily newspaper column...
...Deerfield, Wis., within a week after his marriage, Editor Harland Everson's Independent ran an ad over his name: "For Sale ... 42 corncob pipes, 1 Home Brew outfit complete . . . 1 address book...