Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easily the top man on the bill was our man Bell, current A-Section Leader. Bell, a New York attorney, demonstrated a mastery of the ad lib racket with a couple of take-offs. Other feature performers included the inimitable Witt, "Orson" Wells, "Red" Pace, Overson, Briggs, Baker, Barker, Bridgeman, and Gress on the blew-harp...
...edition will appear in early January. It will be an ad-less, TIME-size, slick-paper weekly, will carry about twelve pages of editorials, news articles, pictures and cartoons culled from the regular Daily fail's issues. All editing will be done in London, printing in New York (from microfilm flown from England...
...railroad pondered a request from a septuagenarian who wrote that he had had two operations, enclosed his hospital bill as proof, declared he could not abide another blizzard, prayed that the railroad would allow him a reservation to Florida. In Birmingham, Mich., Mrs. Richard J. Coveney put an ad in the paper for a maid "to live in, $15 a day. No cooking, cleaning, serving or laundry. . . . Loan of mink coat Thursdays and Sunday. Two children but mistress will take care of them. Maid's duties to answer door and telephone and create impression of luxury. Must be willing...
Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...
...year) had failed to stick within its WPB paper quota. Result: even with an extra, 193-ton grant from WPB there was not enough paper to finish the year at normal rate of use. The Herald's drastic remedy: to eliminate all display advertising and to cut classified ad space in half. At least until year's end the Herald, usually 20 to 30 pages daily and 60 Sundays, will continue at a 12-page daily, 30-page Sunday clip...