Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assigned by OWI to plan a touring display of United Nations war materials, Stage Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
...This display of advertising in a Government building does not mean that Washington has become a hot prospect for an account executive, but it does reveal a willingness to recognize the usefulness of advertising. This fact is confirmed by another Washington move: short weeks ago Elmer Davis set up a new department in the Office of War Information-an advertising department, the Bureau of Campaigns. Its purpose: to coordinate the present advertising activities of the various Government departments. Its head: softspoken, thick-spectacled Ken Dyke, former head of the Association of National Advertisers, and now on leave from the National...
...lusty, gusty was the meeting in the jampacked upstate resort, so great the display of optimism over G.O.P. chances of carrying the State ticket for the first time in two decades that leaders had to caution delegates against overconfidence...
...which he'd been playing, Harry cultivated something new to jazz, which for lack of a definite name we'll call the Sousa style. He dragged out all the old show-pieces, like "Carnival of Venice," and transformed college dances into Sunday afternoon on the town square. Pure technical display, showers of notes in the fast sections, and syrupy rhapsodies in the slow sections...
...with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have helped immeasurably...