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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still in the Forest. In Raleigh, N.C., the morning News and Observer and evening Times ran a classified ad: "Shorty: Got plenty of charcoal. Bought six auto radiators. Tubing, sugar credit and transportation arranged for Sept...
Soon Duke and his friends were playing for private affairs and dances at Washington's True Reformers Hall. A musical contractor arranged bookings in return for half of the fees. Duke noticed that the contractor got his business from a small ad in the classified phone book, so the boy took an ad himself, and he clicked. After that he never had to split his fees. Before long he had a house, a car, a wife and a son, Mercer. But his musical friends all moved to New York, where the jazz was hot. Duke followed in 1922, though...
...Unconfined. In Blair, Neb., the weekly Enterprise carried a classified ad: "LOST: light blue dress night of Share-the-Fun Contest...
Strange pangs flashed along the brow of Harold Stassen, onetime childe wonder of Republican politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
Vive la Difference! In Guadalajara, Mexico, El Informador carried a classified ad: "BEDROOMS SETS, SINNING ROOM PULLMANS. Manufactures Price Garanted...