Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once put an ad in a newspaper: "Wanted: young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...
Frankly Speaking. In Manhattan, Arthur Singerman stretched out on. a Bryant Park bench, awaited replies to his want ad: "Lazy ex-officer, no ambition, no ability, no money, no nothing, married,* 26, desires easy job, short...
...half-page ad in the Wellesley, Mass. Townsman, Roger Babson, noted for his goatee and his dire predictions, said: "Boston will be destroyed by the atom bomb. . . .The United Nations has not the power to prevent such until it is made over into a real World Government . . . we know that the American people will never vote to do so until . . . after our large coastal cities have been ruined...
Purpose of the ad: to sell the special monthly "Atomic Service" of Babson's Reports, Inc., which promised to help clients to "invest in companies which have little invested in such cities." Instead of new clients, Babson got a storm of protest from Boston businessmen...