Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep thinking I ought to be doing something every second...
...Irish whiskey by a pair of offbeat West Coast admen named Joseph Weiner, 43, and Howard Gossage, 42, who have floated to prominence clinging to champagne bottles, beer kegs, brandy snifters and, of course, fifths of Irish. In the process they have broken almost every advertising rule in the book. Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings...
Last week Gossage was lolling in a manor house south of Dublin, writing a book on advertising, paying social calls on Prime Minister Sean Lemass, and casting about for new clients for the W. & G. kooky jar. "We never solicit business," straight-faces Joe Weiner from San Francisco, "we wait for business." But he was not laying odds that another large chunk of the Green would not come under the spell of Adopted Leprechaun Gossage...
...opening words of this book-"How can you stand it?"-bear witness to Author McCarthy's candor. She itemizes the disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal...
...wide base of the ISC deeply affected policy within NSA. A great number of Latin American, African and Middle Eastern student associations joined ISC, bringing with them their concern for politics. Suddenly, student issues were no longer travel, hostles and book stores, but prisons, persecution and Peron...