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Young (27), ruddy-faced Frank Block, St. Louis adman, last June began thinking about a national wastepaper drive. The plan called for the use of regular collection channels (i.e., junkmen), and payment by the industry of all expenses...
Typical of the careening growth of these departments: In April the section under able, Jiggs-faced Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan had a staff of 27, now has 61. Under Major Earle Looker, ex-adman and Roosevelt biographer, the department of Intelligence & Analysis since December has mushroomed from one officer and three civilians to four officers and 48 civilians. Major Looker (recently promoted from captain) digests spot news, reviews periodicals and newsreels once a week, monitors and records all radio commentators, playing them back on portable machines to officers interested...
...Listen-n-Sing" records were devised by Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...
While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...
...period, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. Then Union Boss Jimmy Petrillo, unable to see why a musician should play overtime for nothing, put his heavy foot down. In Manhattan last year a Friday Club for jam sessions was founded by Paul Smith, adman and amateur guitarist, and Eddie Condon, band leader and top-notch guitarist. The Friday Club folded because its jam sessions, like many good ones, mingled Negroes and white men, and there were objections from patrons of the hotels where...