Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time I saw Gary was on the old studio steps. It was Saturday afternoon. He wanted to know how he could get $10. I told him to go down to Santa Monica and collect the customary $10 deposit on an ad he had sold to a washing machine company. This $10 was his commission. Away he went. I have never seen him since except on the screen. I don't believe I have ever missed one of his pictures...
Married. Kathrine Sarles Durstine, 20, youngest daughter of dynamic, Dakota-born Roy Durstine, famed Manhattan ad man; and James R. Griswold, 28, son of Dillard H. Griswold, banker; in Nashville...
Advertising. The key to the continuing profits of London dailies is that the scarcity of their space has made it more t valuable to advertisers. Ad rates have been upped to an average ?9 per column inch (as compared to a pre-war average of about ?5). But this average does not take into account such premium rates as ?10 to ?15 charged for "special position," i.e., front-page corners, space bordering editorials, etc. For a two-column ad eleven inches deep-the maximum allowed-an advertiser may pay the same price as formerly for a half-page. Penny papers...
...huge advertisement in the press last week. Sponsor: the National Committee for Planned Parenthood in behalf of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America. It was the first time in the U. S. that newspaper space had been sold to advertise birth control. The ad urged that birth-control information be given to parents in "homesteads, mining districts, slums and migrant camps," asked citizens to donate money and services to the Federation. Within two days, the Birth Controllers received almost 500 letters-all but five sympathetic...
...hour tale is an extravagant picture of court finery, a romantic rehash of the exploits of the British fleet under Nelson, a fuzzy sketch of Nelson himself, a dazzling portrait of her own staggering beauty. There is no more feeling of life than in a billboard ad...