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...Walter Thompson, the nation's second biggest advertising agency (estimated 1963 billings: $450 million), herself a vice president and director for more than four decades, renowned for her sprightly copywriting ("The skin you love to touch") and pioneering use of famous name testimonials (Eleanor Roosevelt once endorsed White Owl cigars); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Living Fable. Sunstroke is the fable of an owl who cowers before a rising sun that means resurrection to the rest of the world but only terror to him. Pastoral tells of extraordinary provincial people who suspend themselves in goatskin bags every winter in a hibernation that is a living death...
Trembling Rich. George Smith is the unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than...
National Food pays off nearly 700 winners a week and collects a bonus in increased grocery sales. But it will not hold the jump on its competitors for long. Already the rival Red Owl chain has started a TV bingo contest with prizes of trading stamps held out to thousands at home with Red Owl cards. In cities all over, stores are staging such games as "Hidden Treasure," "Split the Dollar," "Hit 100," with a payoff in money, appliances and stamps for those who eagerly collect them...
...Winnie-the-Pooh began to read the book. And he read and read. And after a while it wasn't funny. First the Owl and then even Edward Bear guessed all the lines. So they stopped reading...