Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From multimillion-dollar consume-research programs, admen have officially established what people have known all along. As David Ogilvy expresses it: "The consumer is not a moron. She is your wife...
...vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture). U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis was asleep, and a U.S. Red Cross missionary, Raymond Robins, was writing in his diary: "A great day for Russia and the world...
...passed for U.S. "policy" toward Communism in recent decades has in fact been the Wilsonian do-nothing attitude disguised in rhetoric. In any case, the reader may well feel that the last and best word on 1917 was spoken by Philip Jordan, the old Negro valet of Ambassador David Francis, whom no one asked for an opinion. Phil Jordan wrote home to Mrs. Francis: "It is something awful...
...FLOWERS OF THE FOREST (252 pp.)-David Garneff-Harcourf, Brace...
...autobiographer is lucky if his subject is a fascinating fellow. David Garnett, Britain's eminent, aging (64) novelist and critic, has accomplished the next best thing by having a lot of fascinating pals. In The Golden Echo, the first volume of his autobiography (TIME, May 24, 1954), Garnett told of his childhood among such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard...