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...assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis whites were celebrating the annual Cotton Carnival, Beale Street was having its own fiesta, crowning its own king and queen, parading its own elaborate floats. The king was Undertaker Eddie Hayes. Queen was Ethyl Venson, pretty young wife of a Negro dentist. Highest honors throughout the fiesta were paid to a portly old Negro who had motored from his home in Manhattan for the occasion. A great hero in Beale Street is William Christopher Handy...
...more than three decades solutions of thymol in equal parts of ethyl alcohol and sulphuric ether were and still are sold by enterprising druggists in Germany to the public in general...
...Ethyl Defended...
With only an amateur's "appreciation of the subtleties of modern advertising" I have compared the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s advertisement in TIME, Oct. 21 with the letter of Mr. George M. Rascoe, TIME, Nov. 11, p. 72. From the latter I quote: "His dogs are a springer spaniel . . . and some sort of a fox hound. . . . For either birds or rabbits the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots. . . . And now the old pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort...
With a thorough appreciation of the subtleties of modern advertising, may I respectfully inquire what the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s advertisement in your issue of Oct. 21 is all about? . . . Why not caption the ad., "What's wrong with this picture...