Word: chesterfields
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...eclipse over Brazil, and Edna Wallace Hopper has converted Grauer into something of a quick-change artist. Last week, for example, he was a solemn reader of blank verse (Living-1948), a slightly sardonic moderator (Author Meets the Critics), a whimsical telecast quizmaster (Americana Hall), a rather bubbly announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club). On the NBC Symphony, he had to hurry ("Toscanini won't wait a second," he confided, "I really have to rush before the downbeat...
...Three were still growing. American Tobacco Co.'s Lucky Strikes last year chalked up a record $819,631,122 in sales, and stayed in first place. But its increase in business (7.2%) was less than R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s Camels (15.5%) and Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield (10.6%). The only major company to suffer a drop was Philip Morris, whose sales slumped...
Last week, Chesterfield was busily buying up other advertisers' contracts and erasing all the billboard ads at New York's Polo Grounds. The company would sponsor all telecasts of the Giants' home games next summer (over WNBT), and wanted no free riders (last year the Gem Blades billboard in Yankee Stadium stole Gillette's show). This summer, Chesterfield will make sure that the Polo Grounds is adorned with a big Chesterfield ad, deep in center field...
...quart of soup and two pounds of potatoes," wrote Lord Chesterfield to his son, "will enable you to pass the night without great impatience for your breakfast...
Traditional paternal advice to the youth about to embark on a collegiate career include two subjects, and one of these is invariably gambling. On their relative complexity, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son in an unpublished gem: "The diversion of the chase is considerably easier to master, my boy, than the intricacies of chance...