Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the part I want for first cut is opposite my blade. It is just behind the middle of head. I turn down saw, zuff-zuff, then I stop saw. nip in quick and grab the gland-messy purple and hard like rock-on edge of brain. I grab, twist and pull like hell...
...Died. Jerome New Frank, 67, agile-minded onetime New Deal brain-truster, general counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1935, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission from 1939 to 1941, and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut and Vermont) since 1941; of a heart attack; in New Haven...
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
...Brain Waves. To boost it, he founded his own advertising company, Lambert & Feasley, which, in turn, became a great national agency, with accounts such as Life Savers, J. W. Dant, and Phillips Petroleum. Now there was no stopping Listerine. Lambert developed a formula for Listerine tooth paste, turning out a batch himself with a hand press. "Early I reasoned that a new appeal for the same product would be like plowing virgin territory. We started advertising Listerine for sore throat and for dandruff. Then we used the appeal of after shaving...
Money rolled in almost faster than Lambert could cope with it. A single brain wave (involving a stock-listing arrangement for the company), which struck him suddenly when he was stuck under the Hudson River in a train, made him $10 million without a stroke of work. A second brain wave (involving the sale of his advertising agency to the Lambert Co.), descending on him in a Pullman sleeper, brought another $5,000,000. Finally, bored with moneymaking, Lambert sold all his own holdings, and "from that day to this I have never tried to make another dollar...