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Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...
...Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...
According to Drs. Harry J. McCann and Russell S. Fisher, who conducted the post-mortem, the .22 calibre bullet entered the left side of the brunette's head, and failed to penetrate the orbital region of the brain. Hence they concluded that the Vassar honors graduate would have been able to stagger 50 feet from the place where she actually discharged the weapon...
...yard run--Won by Dickson (T); second, W. Baker (H); third McCann (NE). Time...
Violets, who'll buy my violets? Take these cupid eyes of blue. Let them lead you for diversion On a little spring excursion From the old love to the new. On the peculiar workings of the advertising mind-as represented in New York's McCann-Erickson agency-this saccharine ditty from the 1926 hit parade recently had a cataclysmic effect. For weeks the agency had been searching its accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products...