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Enterprising founder of Air Ads is Sumner Sewall, onetime general traffic manager of Colonial Airways System (now part of American Airways, Inc.). With him is associated Clinton Elliott, whose father as president of Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
Taxi-Ads. In Manhattan last fortnight Adman John H. Livingston Jr. announced that 1,000 taxicabs will soon be equipped with a device to flash a quick-changing series of 22 floodlighted advertising cards before the passenger...
...Author. LeRoy MacLeod, once an adman like Sherwood Anderson, founded the advertising agency of Waters & MacLeod (Los Angeles), retired from it in 1929 to cultivate the thankless muse. Three Steeples is his first novel, but he has also written a book of verse, Driven, which called forth from his great & good friend Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, English poet, the statement that MacLeod is "the only United States poet I have known with the 'Hardy' quality...
Passenger. In a Tri-State Airways plane enroute to Detroit, James Thomas Mangan, Chicago adman, leaped from his seat, grappled with the pilot, scattered money to the wind, had to be restrained by other passengers from jumping out. At a Detroit hospital, whither he was taken, physicians talked of derangement by "airsickeness...
...Author. Ogden Nash, 29, was a Harvardman for one year, left to teach at St. George's School, Newport, then went to Manhattan to sell bonds, which he found hard to do. Onetime adman for Barren Collier, Doubleday Page, this month he joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker...