Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large a newsmeal to digest in one sitting. The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune printed the entire conference text-prodigious publishing feats, and a nine-hour task for even a swift reader. In an editorial, Denver's Rocky Mountain News echoed the feelings and frustrations of many an editor: "It is a report that is going to require close reading, rereading, and then all the clarification that can be summoned. In the short time since its release, it would be humanly impassible to digest its full implications. We can only put down an impression...
...jockey-type shorts? Should they have foam rubber or innerspring mattresses, button or clamp suspenders, optional or compulsory washcloths? But of all the problems, none was causing more fuss last week than the design for the new cadet uniform. It all began when Secretary Harold Talbott flew into Denver six weeks ago. found himself in a huddle with Academy Superintendent Lieut. General Hubert Harmon and Commandant of Cadets Colonel R. W. Stillman...
...only $18 . . . Call now!" Over the air from many another radio and TV station around the U.S., other excited announcers offered similar "bargains"-which almost always turned out to be fakes. To admen and reputable retailers, this popular form of electronic huckstering is known as "bait advertising." Says Denver's Better Business Bureau Director Dan Bell: "The greatest single cause of consumer distrust of advertising today is the widespread use of bait tactics . . . It has been termed a national scandal in business...
...make fraud charges stick so long as the sharpie actually has a cheap product for sale. Radio and television stations have been slow to ban bait ads, say that it is impossible to check every advertiser. One of the best ways to end bait advertising was used by Denver's Better Business Bureau. It hired a man with a sandwich board ("Don't get hooked by phony wholesale offers") to parade outside the advertiser's store and warn customers not to go in. It worked: the dealer closed...
Shades of Uriah Heep. Not that it is all Willis Wayde's fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston. His father, a brilliant, roving engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes...