Word: blurb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says the book's blurb: "In Bed We Cry is filled with the undercurrents of a world at war, but its primary concern is with the froth...
With the reams of blurb that have obstructed its path, however, the show has been somewhat anticlimactic. Gary Cooper is still the hero of Sergeant York etc. but he is cast well enough to make it seem right. The rest of the cast is as good an assemblage of true dramatic talent as the screen has offered these past few years...
This month some 9,000,000 Reader's Digest families got the answer - a five-page debunking not only of the Old Gold blurb, but of all the other big cigaret advertisers as well. The Digest had waited until the Federal Trade Commission issued complaints against the manufacturers of Lucky Strike, Camel, Old Gold and Philip Morris cigarets. The Commission made these complaints...
According to a jacket blurb, this is a "new kind of history." It isn't that so much as an attempt to extend an old and honorable type of history into a throughly discredited field. As a first approximation to an honest history of business, "The Age of Enterprise" far surpasses its predecessors...
...gawsh, do I s-sound f-f-f-f-funny!" This kind of blurb is just what Frederick C. Parkard, Jr., '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, is looking for in his voice tests for Freshmen now being made in Holden Chapel...