Word: evan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Evan Llewelyn Evans, Beautee Soap tycoon, walked into conference, executives trembled and secretaries swooned. When Vic Norman took the dreaded job of handling Beautee's radio commercials for the firm of Kimberly and Maag, despotic Mr. Evans put on one of his most impressive acts. First, he spat on the conference table-to illustrate to Vic that no matter how disgusting a radio commercial may be, it's O.K. if it hits the spot. Then he emptied a carafe of water over the table (drenching the knocking knees of several hirelings)-to illustrate that any other kind...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
Pete Helen, and Evan Carison, the Alaskan kids, have found something to their liking in "the Cave." Peter calls it the homey atmosphere but Evan likes the whiskey and waters Spanish John serves for his friends there...
...last week killed a terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
...rest of the band is made up of Johnny Windhurst, the sensational 17-year-old cornetist from New York who has moved to South Weymouth after a brief visit to Boston earlier this winter (an example of how a sincere mutual interest can draw people together in nothing flat), Evan Schwarz on piano, and George Ohlson on drums...