Word: added
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience Wanted. In Brisbane. Australia, the Courier-Mail ran a classified ad: "Young lady wanted, drive car for young gent, license suspended. City, country. Expenses, small wage. Entails night driving. Urgent...
...ad-lib story was principally intended as a lightener at a heavyweight symposium on basic scientific research. But it served to point up as serious a message as he has ever delivered. "In my public service," said he, "I have found myself increasingly involved with problems and policies affected by the growth* and impact of science and technology-[now] the cornerstones of American security and American welfare." In short, the day is at hand when U.S. science and the U.S. Government have firmly joined hands to plot the nation's future...
Overdone. In Hammond, Ind., an ad in the Times said: "BURNS FUNERAL HOME -We Saute Our Town...
...wasteful is that of setting "bogus," or "dead horse," which the International Typographical Union has been getting into contracts since 1871. In its broadest application, bogus compels a newspaper to employ workers to reset the advertisements that have been received and used in mat or plate form. The reset ad is worthless, often consigned at once to the composing-room hellbox for remelting. On the Washington Post and Times Herald, I.T.U. men last week were resetting ads that actually ran in 1957. The New York Times estimated that it dead-horsed 5,750,000 lines of display advertising last year...
Millie Perkins, a newcomer, lacks the necessary depth for the title role. Despite her poetic prettiness and exaggerated emaciation, she looks like an Ivory Soap ad instead of a tortured adolescent. The other actors do considerbly better; Shelley Winters, as Mrs. Van Daam, dispenses with glamour in favor of convincing frumpishness, while Ed Wynn, as Mr. Dussel, adds a fine touch of ridiculous humanity...