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...added that the bonanza put Thompson "neck & neck with Young & Rubicam for the No. 1 spot." Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over for a very significant reason: J.W.T.'s worldwide agency setup...
...they never wanted to go through it again. Japs got close enough to be smelled. Within 50 feet of one U.S. foxhole, 16 grenades fell. Once Sergeant Azine, dozing, was unintentionally kicked by a buddy; he snapped awake, grabbed his fellow Corpsman by the throat, had his trench knife poised for a thrust before he realized...
...self-defense? The Professor carefully examined the bones and the paths of lead shot embedded in them, then reconstructed a picture of the killing which corresponded exactly with the survivor's story that he had crouched and shot his brother while he came at him with upraised knife. Result: the charge against the killer was changed from murder to manslaughter...
...Font, Ready Knife. Frequently there is not enough type to go round. In September the supply of "I"s ran out during composition of ARMISTICE SIGNED BY ITALIANS. A native Papuan printer chiseled some out of wood. Another time there were not enough "R"s. Editor Leonard gave capital "P"s tails cut from...
...taciturn as the Vermont Yankee. He is less inclined than the Boston Yankee to parade his sense of being, like the Lowells, just this side of God. He comes, of course, from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical, he is nevertheless no cynic. He does not kindle, like a Boston Abolitionist, at one touch of the match. Nor would he blandly go to jail, like Thoreau, rather than pay taxes to a conscienceless Government. But if you provoke the Connecticut Yankee-or Wilbur Cross...