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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Kingdom." The London Observer had a better description: "Here at length is the arithmetic of blood, the chemistry of sweat, the accounting of tears." And Bill Bradshaw, a street sweeper in the City of London, summed up: "It's about time we bloody 'eroes 'ad a look...
...smooth, smart advertising copywriters at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. last week had their little annual joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...
...noticed an ad 'neath our hallowed corner last week which set some of us wondering--what did "they" do in '69 that helps us every day? In case you wonder who the two morons who wrote the column are, you will be able to recognize us by our bleary eyes. for some time. We dug into "this fascinating oil business" in preparation for Friday's mid-term...