Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business spent so -much energy to win politicians and newsmen as customers. The theory of the whole promotional scheme was explained by Author Russell (The Tastemakers) Lynes in a publicity primer for businessmen seeking an advertising tie-in with the national convention. Said Democrat Lynes, in rounded Madison Avenue phrases: "Tastemakers are always going places (like Chicago), where they foregather with other tastemakers and come home and tell people about the wonders they have seen. Since they are influential in their communities, peo ple follow their lead...
...gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado was trampled in a melee, and the convention chairman banged so hard for order that his gavel flew apart...
Researchers have been busy with the distinction between pain itself and a sufferer's reaction to it. Why does a Szechwan coolie grit his teeth and stifle his cries when, with no anesthetic, his leg is sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey flannel suit at the first brrr of the drill on a heavily novocained tooth? Does a Chinese feel pain less than an Occidental? Probably not, according to Dr. James D. Hardy, who (with Dr. Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell) pioneered in measuring pain on a "dolorimeter" at New York...
Last week federal and state disease detectives met in Madison, Wis. to pool their clues. But the clues did not add up to an explanation for the outbreak. Public water supplies and fluid milk had been checked and exonerated. The typhoid could not be blamed on a single cause, such as a single batch of perishable food, because such a source would produce a rash of cases in a small area at about the same time...
...going to bring ministers from abroad, too, men we've met in our travels, to help with the crusade. We've announced it will last seven weeks-from May 15 to June 30-but as a matter of fact, we have an option on Madison Square Garden for five months running, to be on the safe side...