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What an inspiring message your Oct. 10 issue held for the independent voter-so it's Dicky Nixon! . . . May we all rejoice over this shining symbol of banality-let Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn sing hallelujah...
...ballads are so similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount batten in satin and silk, silk and satin." But he has done better than that...
...American companies shared profits with their employees. Last week some 8,000 profit-sharing plans were on file with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each month 200 more are pouring in for approval. Among the recent converts: Chicago's Bell & Howell camera company; Manhattan's ad agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne; the National City Bank. A fortnight ago, Eastman Kodak, one of the early profit-sharers, declared a "wage dividend" of $28.5 million for its 53,000 employees, an average bonus for each employee of more than $500 for the year...
...like to tar and feather Dior, and run him out of town. Why did he have to build me up just to let me down? I can hang my head, and drop my bra and appear a flattened frump, But Christian, tell me dear, how do I batten down the rump...
...educational crusades, Osborn's has been one of the most curious. A soft-spoken teacher-turned-adman (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), he has become convinced that education pays too little attention to imagination, and he has taken it upon himself to do something about it. Last year he wrote a textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course...