Word: hangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launching Kent cigarettes. As a result, he has scant patience with the pseudo-academic theorizing of some admen, instead talks to businessmen in their own lingo: "The objective of advertising has always been to sell goods at a profit." A handy man with a trombone, Ganger (rhymes with hanger) paid his way through Ohio State ('26) by playing in campus dance bands, joined the Geyer ad agency fresh out of college. His work on a campaign for Embassy cigarettes brought him to the attention of Lorillard-where he spent three years before resigning "for reasons of health." When...
...allowance of 10? to a quarter a week, cut grass for extra cash, worked a paper route. There were, of course, privileges unknown to most children; for example, Teddy received his first Communion from Pope Pius XII. But he still got his spankings with a coat hanger. Anything less than an all-out effort, whether in geometry or golf, was bound to bring a reprimand from his father. Recalls Sister Jean, the wife of Stephen Smith, who helps manage the family fortune: "Daddy always said, 'Never take second best.' " Says Teddy with studied understatement: ''We felt...
...then, is the athlete Harvard? He's not always the II student, nor is he the hanger-on. He may be one of the students in the 550-650 range in the swung the admissions committee to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Club, Band, CRIMSON, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be ungraceful. "Harvard is a bag," Bender noted quite keenly. "You can say almost anything, cite , and prove...
...firing line at Camp Perry, Ohio, the pigtailed blonde in striped shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only...
...then, is the athlete at Harvard? He's not always the Group I or II student, nor is he the Group VI hanger-on. He may be one of the students in the 550-650 range in the SAT's who swung the admissions committee over to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Glee Club, band, Crimson, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be socially ungraceful. "Harvard is a mixed bag," Bender noted quite keenly: "You can say almost anything, cite examples, and prove...