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...TIME, March 8, p. 26, under the heading "Phrase," you state that Florist J. S. O'Keefe of Boston was the man responsible for the line: "Say it with Flowers." It happens that the gentleman is not a florist but the president of an advertising agency; that his initials are not J. S., but P. F. Patrick F. O'Keefe, president of the P. F. O'Keefe Advertising Agency, Inc., is the man. Am I right...
...Board of Directors of the Society of American Florists clustered last week in Chicago. They had long admitted that business bagan blossoming with luxuriant new millions of dollars shortly after the slogan, "Say it with flowers!" first was used. Data were not published as to the exact hour when the precious words first unfolded, nor the posture, state of mind, diet and dress of their author at the moment of burgeoning. But the floral directors were at last able to express their belated thanksgiving. They voted last week that a gold medal be struck off, incrusted by a floral design...
...What great advertising agency came out against the Harvard Advertising Awards? 24) What phrase earned Florist O'Keefe of Boston a gold medal...
...passes that he is not called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry...