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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...
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...
With yesterday's poor weather causing a much slimmer turn-out than had been expected. Ed Callanan, clerk of the course, announced that the plan to have a semi-finals meet for the large wherry group is cancelled and the semi-finals scheduled for Thursday will not be held...