Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whom it May Concern: Mr. A. Rattray has ceased to be the hunter to my safari and from this date has no authority to order anything to my account. (Signed) FURNESS...
...written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces a doorway; he cannot write unless he can look up and see an exit. His writing...
...believes, the scholar's "Spiritual aspirations which ought to lean toward the future relapse into a meticulous nostalgia." Academic life, like academic architecture is still medieval, and "it addresses itself far more often than we like to admit to the solution of other men's problems which no longer concern...
...more concern to executives than copywriters is Macy's stand on cash and prices. Famed are the merchandising wars caused in the past by Macy's offer to undersell each & every rival by at least 6%. Lately the store, under pounding from the Better Business Bureau, has made a slight retreat. The once unreserved boast now reads: "It is a Macy policy to sell its merchandise for at least 6% less than it could if it did not sell exclusively for cash...
...what I say about it is mostly what I gathered by observation. The work done there comprises such odd duties as writing an advertisers copy for him, seeing that the printers use the correct and most attractive type, carrying on correspondence with national houses, and dickering with advertising concerns in re-contracts with their clients. Securing local advertising is, of course, one of the major tasks; there are also the routine duties of office work and collecting copy. All the clerical work is done by a permanent secretary. The main advantage to be gained is, of course, the ability...