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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offering unparalleled training in practical business administration, the business board will give Yardlings practice in circulation and advertisement solicitation as well as in ad-writing. Besides fulfilling more routine tasks, candidates will observe the broad, long-range policies of a business enterprise...
...sure was surprised a couple weeks ago when your correspondent called me up long distance at Midland, Texas, asking me about that ad I had put in the Wall Street Journal...
...didn't figure that ad made any news that TIME would be interested...
Many actors played Uncle Tom their whole lives through. A real "Uncle Tommer" always knew his part (ad libs included) when hired; if he had to rehearse, he was considered a fraud. Though dozens of notables like Joe Jefferson, Mrs. Fiske, Maude Adams, Otis Skinner at one time or another appeared in Tom Shows, good actors almost always flopped in them. It took a ham to bring home the hokum...
...hands as they view the diminutive church attendance. . . . One wonders why more of them are not seen in church. . . . The kids of today don't have the real stuff anymore,' they say self-appreciatingly. 'Why, when I was young, do you think . . .?' and so on ad infinitum. When we are looked upon in such manner, we feel rebellious...