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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduation, Lillian decided to look for a steady job. "I kept looking under 'female' in the want ads, which I thought was right, after all. But one day I read under 'male,' and there was an ad for a truck driver at the Hudsco Cleaners in Catasauqua." Being crazy about cars, and meeting no objections at home, Lillian found herself behind the wheel of a 2½-ton truck. She stuck to it for 14 months before she quit. "I felt tired, sort of beat up," she says. For a while, she worked...
...News ripped the hide off Race-Baiter Bryant Bowles when he spoke in Charlotte. In four years, the News won three first prizes for editorials from the North Carolina Press Association. Publisher Robinson rattled around Charlotte in his battered old Dodge to speak to citizens' groups, hustled for ads Unce on a visit to Manhattan, he phoned Colgate-Palmolive Co. Chairman E. H Little on the pretext that he wanted to pay hls respects "to the most prominent North Carolinian in New York " Little was so pleased that he sent his car around tor Robinson, who ended up with...
...hear, ad nauseam, from certain vociferous patriots, that God is on "our" side. From the speeches of some politicians one gathers the impression that religion, along with NATO, should be cultivated as a potent instrument in the cold war. and that the Almighty has enlisted in the army of the "free world'' for the duration...
Hitchcock, daughter of the paper's founder. Democratic U.S. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock. He started out as a $25-a-week reporter (and got a $2.50 raise when he married the boss's daughter); he quickly switched to the classified-ad department when he found that "I was not so hot as a reporter." Doorly moved up on the business side, put the World-Herald solidly in the black (and on the Republican side) and made it one of the most profitable, strongly entrenched dailies in the country. In 1928 William Randolph Hearst took over the Omaha...
...Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...