Word: offhands
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...perhaps ten. No one has yet accused Candidate Landon of accumulating a campaign slush fund, a charge usually hurled about this time at any candidate who gets out in front in the race for the Presidential nomination. Last week his Kansas City Campaign Chairman Oscar Stauffer could not "remember offhand" who had supplied the biggest Landon campaign contribution to date...
...Shubert and Carroll shows on Broadway. One night Columnist Louis Sobol let him tell a few gags on his radio hour. Benny was a hit. His voice, grating on the stage, "took" on the air. Sponsored by General Foods, he worked up to his present eminence by an offhand amiability and the knack of weaving advertising matter into his act as part of the dialog...
...organization, however, which can be counted on to yield no quarter is the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Last year ANPA's advertising bureau head, William A. Thomson, decided to take a critical look at Radio's offhand claim of "millions of listeners." The fruits of that investigation appeared last week as Yardsticks on the Air, a pamphlet published by ANPA, which struck the year's hardest wallop at Radio as an advertising medium...
...composition board, get mass effects by using a wide, long-distance spray, achieve shadings by spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost a quarter of General Motors, which owns Pontiac...
...test pilots are famed and few live long enough to get rich on their fat earnings. Fortnight ago Pilot Collins was asked to name offhand the crack U. S. test pilots. His list...