Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians said that German planes were dropping iron rails, plowshares, other clanging hunks into the city to demoralize besieged civilians. The Russians showed no signs of demoralization. Only the cold communiqués from Berlin, the warmer rhapsodies to valor from Moscow, indicated a slow Nazi ad vance. This week, on the eve of Hitler's second year in Russia, the question at Sevastopol was how much Nazi meat it would take to choke the grinder...
...world's potentially biggest tabloid (circulation: a military secret) was born last week. Name: Yank. Weight: 24 ad-less pages. Price: 5?. Father: the U.S. Army. Like its famed predecessor, World War I's Stars & Stripes, it is edited "solely and exclusively for us in the ranks and for nobody else." Its managing editor is a 23-year-old private who reputedly talks back to sergeants, Bill Richardson, ex-Sunday editor of the San Francisco Chronicle...
Yank will have an official chaperon in Lieut. Colonel Egbert White, former vice president of the big ad agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, ex-staffman of Stars & Stripes...
...Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them at a dogfight." When the sponsor objected that his approach was "negative," Morgan retracted, said he would wear blue shoes to a dogfight...
Some sports such as baseball, crew, ad football will give you the full four credits, while such sports as tennis, squash, and bicycling can only be counted as two credits. For instance, if you are on a regular eight-oared crew rowing for a House or for the College, you get four credits a week, while you get only two credits for single scull rowing...