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...other afternoon when several dollars which had been burning a hole in my pocket suddenly burst into flame and I found myself in the Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. On his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster...
...slogan was Lucky's way of saying that there would no longer be enough chrome green ( a derivative of bichromate) to make green ink. But WPB, which lifted restrictions on chromium last September after originally cutting its commercial use, denied that there was any special war purpose for chrome green. There were rumors that Lucky Strike, which sold more cigarets (59,500,000,000) last year than any other U.S. tobacco company, wanted a white package to compete with Chesterfield for the female trade. There was no question, at any rate, but that white packages were cheaper to produce...
Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...