Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan ("The Beard") Kent and Austen Herbert ("Ginger") Johnson sold a singing commercial to Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. Scheduled for a late August debut, it is the latest product of a partnership that has made them kings of jingle. It is scored for 23 brass instruments, a Hammond organ and a male voice. The miniature cantata runs for one minute. Excerpts...
...aisles were crowded with marchers, hundreds of delegates ably abetted by the leather-lunged 27th Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ and the band alternated, with occasional perfunctory whoops from the galleries...
Scene VIII: on the Floor. As the boos mounted, the band and organ played, and then, from the wings of the Stadium, poured an endless procession of Kelly workers, with Lucas signs: BUSINESS...
...Time (Columbia) a little boy named Stinky found a caterpillar named Curley, a threadbare theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with...
...capital and labor. This success story divides itself into two parts. Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union. Part 2 includes I.L.G.W.U.'s long struggle with the Communists, who sought to use it as an organ of class struggle, its final defeat of this totalitarian influence under Sigman's and Dubinsky's leadership, and the union's decision to act not as a disruptive organization but as a highly responsible part of the democratic process. It is this story which makes Tailor...