Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Evan Evans, Hill believes in object lessons. Once, the story goes, he commanded a new agency man to follow him from his office, drove wordlessly up Fifth Avenue to Tiffany's, demanded that a clerk show him a $150,000 necklace. Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...
Highlight of last Friday's class championship races was the 155 event. This race was touted by Dennison and Ed Callanan '41, clerk of the course, to be the show-pice of the meet; and it was. Both Day and Bill Dowd, who followed less than a boat length behind, broke the standing record for the event...
...McCarthy victory turned one more page of a storybook career. The grandson of an Irish immigrant, he started out as a grocery clerk, worked his way through law school and was elected at 29 the youngest circuit judge in Wisconsin history...
Most exciting race of the week's competition was in the 155 elimination. Coach Blake Dennison and Ed Callanan, clerk of the course, had predicted that this class would give a good show; but the race that developed exceeded even their predictions...