Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washes for One Head. McElroy came up through the advertising route, but he bore no resemblance to the caricatured three-martini sincere-tie adman of Madison Avenue legend. In Procter & Gamble's tight check-and-balance organization, advertising was something of a science, tied closely to research and development, production and marketing. P. & G. advertising knew almost to the ounce how much soap each of its bubble-bathos radio programs could be credited with selling. P. & G. advertising still does the weekly wash free for 100 Cincinnati housewives, checks them closely as to their likes and dislikes...
Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery. Samuel Insull Jr., 57, once his father's righthand man and now a Chicago insurance salesman, bore up steadily under the legacy. Last week he rebelled...
Card Sharp. In San Bernardino, Calif., a card stuck in the windshield of an illegally parked car bore an exchange of messages: "Dear Officer, I ran out of gas and money, too," followed by "Dear Citizen, I'll give you an hour to earn some money and buy some...
...with inventing their own churches. No exception is Lady Emily Lutyens, who was one of the muddled Marthas of the Theosophical Society, a cult that hoped to mix the occult traditions of Buddhism. Christianity, and the other great religions, and actually succeeded only in unloosing a great Ganges tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggerypook on the superstitious suburbs of the West. Author Lutyens' first book, A Blessed Girl (1954), evoked a pleasant nostalgia for a childhood spent as a member of an aristocratic family of great talent. This book is an equally engaging story evoking years spent...
...determine whether men shall continue to live in freedom and in dignity or whether they are to become mere vassals of an all-powerful state." Then, while a U.S. officer was still translating, the President moved to his bubble-top Lincoln (which had been sent over by ship and bore a French diplomatic plate...