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Last week it became known that ill health had forced Sign Man Hardy to give up. In his home State now there are few signs left. Virginia passed an anti-billboard law under which all signs save official markers were removed from within highway rights...
According to D. M. Sullivan '33 at a late hour last night, the following notice had been posted on the billboard of the Military Science Building: "The Limber Club--There will be an organization meeting on Friday, December 3, in the basement of Memorial Hall at 6 a.m. First call at 5.45, assembly at 5.50. General John J. Pershing, retired, (D.O.L.) will address the candidates on the burning question: 'Why do the Limbers always lead the Caissons, and by how much...
Lilly Turner (written and produced by Philip Dunning & George Abbott). To anyone interested in U. S. colloquialism is recommended Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes From Pitchmen" colyum in The Billboard. It is devoted to the affairs of itinerant vendors of medicines ("med"), penknives ("shivs"), soap ("gummy"), periodicals ("the sheet"), etc. Not so diverting by half is the latest offering of Playwrights Dunning & Abbott (Broadway) which is concerned with a travelling medicine show...
Oldtime Newsman Frank Ward O'Malley sailed for Europe as a self-elected missionary of U. S. culture. Said he: "There's a grand opportunity for enlightenment on Route 4, for instance, which runs all the way from the Riviera into Italy without a single billboard, not one barbecue stand, and only one place ... so far as I know . . . where a guy can buy a hot dog . . . the children over there, too . . . wouldn't dream of saying, 'Oh, shut up, pop' or 'Scram' to a grey-haired parent. No modernism about them...
...career of the best known U. S. bull-"Bull Durham." He was born in Durham, N. C., at the close of the Civil War, sired by a British bull out of a jar of mustard. But not until last month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing...