Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight race over the longer Henley distance told a different story, however, as the low stroking boat of Sam Putnam captured the traditional Hacker...
...price because: "the comparison would not have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising in its newspaper or house displays; instead, it insists on such low-key language as "on sale" or "specially priced." Downtown stores in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis have agreed to stop advertising comparative prices on mattresses...
...Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens. They can come dressed in that modern American silk, fresh and soft, which is a veritable refrigerator at low cost. Italy, on the other hand, is not on the equator, and even there, by the way, lions wear their coats, and crocodiles are lined with their most precious hides...
...LATIN AMERICA. With one-third of the world's Catholics (172,271,000), Latin America has the smallest number of priests per capita in the world-one to every 4,810 Catholics. In addition to the relatively low educational level of the churchmen there (even including bishops), the Catholic Church is threatened in Latin America by a major development of Protestant missions. Protestant missionaries in Latin America have increased since 1916 from 1,689 to 6,303, and the number of Protestants has gone up from...
...REALLY SINCERE GUY (McKay; $4), by Robert Van Riper, public-relations director of N. W. Ayer & Son's Philadelphia office, poses a puzzler: Can a publicity man who believes in low tariffs find happiness with a client who wants him to tout high tariffs? Van Riper's idealogue finds happiness for a while with a yummy girl reporter from a newsmagazine, finally goes back to his wife and the dream of all P.R. men: a nice little agency of his own, with clients who tariff low, pay high...