Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reminded me of a dummy my aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once the whole story-which I do not want to tell...
Qualification. In London, the buyer of a want-ad pleaded: "Can anyone recommend a cure for smoking for a gentleman being impoverished by the cost of tobacco? No suggestions calling for will power, please...
...sideshow world of the Sunday supplements, where pterrifying pterodactyls often rub wings with faded Broadway butterflies, Hearst's giant American Weekly has long been king. But its crown is slipping. After 14 years of trying, This Week magazine has finally passed it in ad revenues. In 1948, according to figures out last week, This Week carried $16,695,628 worth of ads to the Weekly's $16,466,061. (At $24,900 for a four-color page, This Week's ad rate topped all U.S. magazines.*) The Weekly still led in circulation with 9,410,561 copies...
...Fort Lee, N.J., pudgy Nightclubber George Ross, 32, was married to onetime Cinemactress Arline Judge, 36, who has, at one time or another, been married to Director Wesley Ruggles, Sportsman Dan Topping, Ad Executive Vincent Morgan Ryan, R.A.F. Captain James Addams, and Bob Topping, Dan's brother (who is now married to Lana Turner...
Manhattan's Gimbels last week cleaned up an old powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...