Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only the wealthy, the lucky, or foreign officialdom have a chance to find a place to sleep in Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen...
...policies will be expressed largely in economic terms and Vandenberg has already ad dressed himself to the task of mobilizing congressional support for foreign economic policies which will implement U.S. political efforts. Senator Vandenberg's approach is realistic. He has cautioned that the U.S. is not rich enough to "become permanent almoner to the whole earth." That remark does not foreshadow a return to economic isolationism. Vandenberg well understands that the world's reconstruction needs may continue to call for U.S. sacrifices. Says he: "As much as anything, I am concerned about our own psychology, the continued reiteration...
Sometimes, however, we wish we could ignore the matter entirely. Last summer, an unemployed veteran, convinced that he was a natural-born advertising copywriter and unable to get a job in Chicago's ad agencies, addressed his message to 60 of their top executives via a miniature six-page replica of TIME, with himself on the cover. He didn't pose as Man of the Year, but he did get 17 replies and, within a week, the job he wanted...
Underwear without Picasso. Rand's ads are sometimes as pristine as good abstract painting, sometimes as jumbled as Dadaism on an off-day. But unlike many frustrated ad artists who like to paint "the real thing" on Sundays, Rand believes he can put his art into ads. Generally, a Rand ad looks disarmingly simple when done, but obviously took a lot of thinking. "Briefly," he explains in his book, "the designer experiences, perceives, analyzes, organizes, symbolizes, synthesizes." Rand is against "using Picasso to sell underwear," believes that "to design a liquor ad you should know what...
...self-conscious U.S. broadcasts was amazing-and somehow delightful. From the relaxed, indifferent air of audience and performers, it seemed as if a broadcast warm-up was in progress. But the Music Hall was on the air-an hour and a half of singing, acting and comedy, almost completely ad...