Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when you're standing on a windy corner...
...clearly to U.S. citizens, the Advertising Council's campaign is under way via a series of newspaper and magazine advertisements (the one shown here is titled: Look . . . How Main Street Has Grown!), posters, car cards, billboard sheets, and a campaign guide that has gone out to leading advertisers, ad agencies, leading newspapers, magazines and radio...
...ElmhirstStraight family, which has patiently paid the New Republic's deficits throughout its 32-year existence. (Rich young Michael Straight is also currently shooting the works to see that the New Republic's new Editor Henry Wallace* gets all that money can buy.) Unlike the ad-lean New Republic, which gives an outward appearance of respectable poverty, U.N. World's So pages were on slick paper, carried plenty of ads, and looked a little like a cross between Business Week and Survey Graphic...
...uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
Fifty-one-year-old Leo Corrigan wedged into Dallas' real-estate market 30 years ago as a want-ad salesman. His first venture was a neighborhood drugstore, built for $10,000 out of savings. It was also one of the few buildings he ever purchased outright. Corrigan's operating motto is: pay as little down as possible, let the .rent do the rest. Also: always build your apartments around a shopping center. As one project began to pay off, he would take out a mortgage to start another...