Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Established in 1919, S-M was one of the first publisher-owned agencies for the distribution of magazines to newsstands. It was started by the Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc. and the Mc-Call Corp. The S-M stands for Science and McCall, and this name has not been changed even though the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Meredith Publishing Co. and Street & Smith Publications, Inc. have since joined the organization...
...numbers of young people seeking admission. . . . We are moved less by the fact of Harvard's growth in the past than by our sense that the educating large numbers of our young people is so enormous and no important to our country that no college for whatever reason, call afford to stand aside. . . . We hope that Harvard makes plans to add two or three Houses, and that the necessary advance steps are taken to build these Houses and to staff them, before the wave of population hits...
...secretaries in Wadsworth House leaned out of the windows and threatened to call the police. Then Cavicchi reportedly shook Wee's hand, said, "We all have our differences of opinion," and drove away...
...will learn that some TV pressagents maintain what they call their "integrity" by not smoking the sponsor's cigarettes and how a TV performer can build up a small warehouse of merchandise by judiciously dropping brand names into his patter. Finally, he will get some lessons in TV executives' lingo, the best of which might also be applied to the book as a whole: "I thought we'd just throw it on the floor and walk around...
...Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...