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Rare is the author who makes an accurate appraisal of personal work, even by accident, but then Novelist Keyes is something of a phenomenon. The happy quip in the publishing world is that she learned to type on a cash register, that hardly anybody can match her at striking the...
I refer to the Lucky Strike ad containing a jingle attributed to "K. G. Inglold, Harvard University." This is a misrepresentation, since there is no Ingold among the student body or the faculty or the employees of Harvard University.
The only misrepresentation was made by Lucky Strike's typesetters: "K. G. Ingold" exists. He is actually Kurt Gingold 1G, Conant Hall 15a, a section man in Chemistry 1. Gingold sent in his jingle on October 1; Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, the Lucky Strike advertising agency, dispatched him a...
Jingle Jangle. In the first few months after Hopalong Cassidy shirts and pants were put on the market, the U.S. supplies of black dyes were badly strained; a Los Angeles bakery, which had been flubbing along in seventh place among its competitors for years, leaped to the van with gazelle...
All these far-flung musical notes last week were piping a merry jingle of dollars into the Manhattan headquarters of Muzak Corp., which grossed $5,000000 in 1949 by providing "wired music" to 10,000 customers in 150 cities, not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Canada and...