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Will Grant came to see that advertising was his dish. He sold his bulletin-board advertising business (which he had organized in 27 colleges) for $7,000, started to learn about selling and printing at R. R. Donnelley & Sons. By 1935 he had learned and saved enough to open his own advertising firm in Dallas. The first year was tough: he sold only $9,000 worth of advertising, had to pawn his Model T five times to keep in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Heretic in the House | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Poor John Hancock! As frisky as a cocker spaniel three weeks old when he walked into Carpenter last Saturday morning, he drizzled out with all the give of a wet dish rag after one look at the standings so blatantly evident on each class bulletin board...

Author: By Stan Cole, | Title: Ward Room Topics | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...here preparing to dish out a few choice tidbits about the famous Co. Baker, I am greatly harassed by a certain Nav Comm strategist who is eagerly slugging quarters into the telephone. He sure pays an awful lot to tell someone in Chicago that he loves her.... The great Tammany has crumbled! The one time omnipotent room is trying desperately to hold on. According to them they have one assistant squad leader, one muster sheet "collectorupper," and wehbring.... "Moonshine" Panky was quite surprised and chagrined upon finding out that he was giving blood and not getting it.... Attention Brother Rais...

Author: By C. F. Reichbardt jr., | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 3/19/1943 | See Source »

...Throughout the U.S. cinema houses did away with Bank Nites, Dish Nites and bingo games and upped prices. The customers still came in droves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boom | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...emphasized the small talk of people in the middle of a big war-only 20 minutes flying time distant from a Nazi aerodrome. People said "God Bless" to each other the way Americans say "Good-by." The maid at the hotel said "Thank you" each time she served a dish. A salvage worker proudly told how Cromer won the East Anglia salvage contest. There were echoes of a hot controversy about whether the church should set its wall back to make more room for parked cars. A German bomb had settled that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cromer Is A Town | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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