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Well aware was Philip K. Wrigley that priorities would allow him no more aluminum for foil to wrap his chewing gum. So last week smart Phil Wrigley sold his remaining 500,000 lb. to OPM, thus simultaneously 1) struck a blow for national defense, 2) pulled his neatest publicity coup since he bought famed Pitcher Dizzy Dean for his Chicago Cubs...
...collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine in action, recorded on a crudely-filmed, undeniably authentic reel, is no stuff for comedy. A firm impression of well-trained might sticks in the mind much longer than fantastic terrorism...
...Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes to go on. Jack Kapp, for whom Bing makes Decca records, recalls that The Groaner's singing is so facile he recorded the complicated Ballad for Americans in four hours. The same song took Paul Robeson three weeks...
...chemical engineer he got a job in 1912 as a laboratory-tester at Sears, Roebuck &. Co. Donald's first job was to analyze boys' pants and chewing gum, which he frequently found together. A man of rare patience, he rose slowly but thoroughly as a merchandising know-it-all, reaching the vice-presidency in 1930. He had long since become the foremost mass buyer in the U. S. From 1928 through 1938 he bought merchandise that sold for $4,500,000,000-some 135,000 items, from tin cups to tractors, from diapers to tombstones...
Broadwater did swallow his gum, he chokedly admitted last night, and will probably be unable to attend the extravaganza, which is being held in honor of Miles. Irina Baronova, Tamara Toumanova, and Tatiana Riabouchinska in the Bow Street chambers of the magazine...