Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Walter Dean (or Deane, he doesn't care which) Fuller in Mr. Lorimer's old chair as Curtis president, Vice President Fred Albert Healy rose to report (without giving money figures) on net advertising revenue-for the Post, 1.6% over 1936. "It's nothing to crow about," said homely Mr. Healy who, like most Curtis executives has not lost his Midwestern inflection, "but I can't say we feel bad, either...
Other Curtis directors, reviewing lively Mr. Healy's activities of the year as "sales manager" (his own title) of the Post, thought he might be permitted at least a small crow. Older & sportier than the run of undergraduates, Fred Healy had a legendary good time at the University of Illinois. When he left there in 1914 he sold automobile accessories for a while, in 1917 became a Country Gentleman ad solicitor out of the Chicago office. He was the first to suggest that Curtis set up headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head...
...York City, the Herald Tribune had piled up a nice Sunday gain on its competitor, the Times. Compared with November 1936, the Times lost an average of five pages of advertising each Sunday while the Herald Tribune made a fractional gain. Ordinarily such a record calls for prolonged professional crowing, but the Herald Tribune has been in no mood to crow since Sunday, November 21, when the paper carried as "Section XII" a 40-page glorification of Cuban Boss Fulgencio Batista's illiberal regime...
...Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic in the U. S., and Blume became known as a surrealist about as soon as he became known...
With Dario "Block That Kick" Berizzi, Charlie Hutter, Lothrop Forbush, and Russ Greenhood back from cheorleading and Sophomore Jim Curwen returned to the fold from crow, just about all of last year's Varsity and Freshmen performers are again under Coach Ulen's supervision...