Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your preference. But Holmes should be paired either with Dr. Watson or Conan Doyle (proving again that the creature can be greater than the creator); in any case, to make this correct evaluation is to place Sherlock Holmes automatically into the "Yes" column. If you placed Conan Doyle beside Edgar Allan Poe, then certainly Doyle would go into Straight City with Watson, and Poe would join Holmes in Valhalla. Elementary...
...well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers" of crime, he won plaudits from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. His activities brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers in a day) and celebrity status to its pastor. One day, emerging from a "skin-movie" house, where he had gone to administer last rites to a stricken Roman Catholic, he was scolded...
Spitballing, or brainstorming, is something like a group-therapy session in which the patient is the product and the doctors are the admen. Recently, TIME Correspondent Edgar Shook sat in on a brainstorming meeting at Chicago's North Advertising Inc. The patient: Flair, a new Paper Mate pen with a nylon tip. Among the doctors: North President Don Nathanson, Creative Director Alice Westbrook, Copy Chief Bob Natkin and Copywriters Steve Lehner and Ken Hutchison. The dialogue, somewhat condensed: Natkin: We have what I think must be the first graffiti advertising campaign, which we've been running in teen...
...Boring, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, was an internationally known historian of modern experimental psychology. He was the first chairman of the psychology department when it became independent of the philosophy department...
...party that suffered most of all was the Movement for Reform, a centrist splinter group that was hastily organized as a protest against Gaullism by De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister, Edgar Pisani. It was wiped out on the first ballot. In fact, the only opposition group that made any gains was the small United Socialist Party, which almost doubled its voter strength -to 4% of the total. Even so, the party's chief, former Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, was by no means certain of retaining his Assembly seat in a runoff contest with...