Word: couponing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand new readers a week are putting their armchairs around Auntie Mame and finding her neither safe nor sane, merely sidesplitting. Auntie Mame is a screwball who has to be seen or read to be disbelieved. She is a coupon-clipping Pearl White hanging on the dizzy cliff edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little...
Frames & Freezers. Another scheme is the contest portrait. Any radio listener who identifies a "mystery tune" (usually something as well known as The Star-Spangled Banner) receives a coupon to buy "a $14 photograph" for $1. At the studio the prospect is pressured into buying a frame ($2.95 extra), tinting ($6 extra), and perhaps a whole set of pictures. In Chicago, bait advertisers plug a food-freezer plan. By buying in large quantities from a "co-op," the prospect supposedly saves enough to pay off the cost of a freezer. But, says Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The savings...
Previously Sumner had refused to accept the coupons, which entitle the bearer to two theatre admissions for the price of one. At that time he said an agreement that the coupon books would be sold for only one day and only to Harvard students had not been kept, and therefore he was not legally bound to accept the coupons...
Stanley Summer, U.T. manager, yesterday charged that shoe shine boys and others have been selling the books to the general public in violation of the original agreement. The coupon books, which appeared early this fall, offered undergraduates, among other premiums, two admissions at the theatre for the price...
...access to the University and its officials. He has promised to find more bunk room if the demand is excessively large during exams, and has promoted Concentration Dinners and Career Conferences for the commuter. To help the Freshman, a grant from a special fund provides a limited number of coupon tickets for evening meals in the Union, so the needy student can afford to attend evening activities. Most recently, Whitlock helped start the drive to win tutorial for the science major, "The commuting science student is at somewhat of a disadvantage," Whitlock said. "Living at home often makes it impossible...