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...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...
David A. Smart is a onetime stenographer who in 1937 exulted: "Why didn't somebody tell me about this publishing game before? It's a cinch." Dave Smart had twice hit the jackpot: with Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine which began paying off soon after he started it in 1931, and Esquire, which, started in 1933, became a hit overnight. Esquire's Editor Arnold Gingrich packed it full of cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until...
...added fillip was tossed in by a Republican, New York's liberal National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson: "The Republicans will have to face . . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt," who "will be no cinch...
...cinch," John said as he collected a $10 bet. "The tails ticked just a little, but after I got them down, they tasted just like steak...
There are several certainties about this meet. A1 Van de Weghe will undoubtedly take the backstroke handly and Hough will win the breastroke fast as easily. Princeton's medley team is a cinch to add five points to the Tiger score, even without Van de Weghe. As a result, the Nassau backstroker will probably swim the 220 against Cutler. Powers, on Curwen, with Ned Parks as his running mats. This event promises to be one of the tightest of the year for all of the contestants are carable of better than...