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Business Manager Jim McNulty has drawn in a pleasingly plump crowd of subscribers, who will receive as a reward for paying up early a copy of the yearbook with their names stamped in gilt on the front cover...
Hate was not on the Institute agenda. It was not introduced by mild-mannered Writer-Director Norman Corwin, though Corwin, at what was supposed to be a routine discussion of radio drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack...
...gingerbread" as a synonym for superfluity is a grievous error. . . . From antiquity, gingerbread was a ceremonial food and regarded as an appropriate sacrifice to the gods. ... As such it was ... often prepared in fanciful shapes and elaborately gilded. It was from this archaic custom that the expression developed, "the gilt is off the gingerbread. . . ." But mark you, it was the gilt that was "off," the gingerbread remained...
...became absorbed in art collecting back in the 1880s. Leaving the more expensive masterpieces to his friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some on the foot...
...letter sent with the bulky, legally worded prospectus, got no "job-up" letter to enlighten them (something A.T. & T. is neither obliged nor forbidden to do). Another reason was plain carelessness. The rights expired on the Labor Day weekend, when many a shareholder was more interested in golf than gilt-edged bonds...