Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzer will play first, Henry Young, short, and Ben Akillian, center field. Ralph Robinson has definitely won himself the right field berth. Nat Harris will probably plug up the hole in left field caused by Donelan's pitching assignment...
...advertising has been getting harder to sell (Seventeen's 1948 ad receipts of $3,300,000 were slightly below 1947). Owner and part-time Publisher Walter Annenberg decided it was high time he had a full-time publisher to get promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot he snagged pretty, blonde Andr...
Professor Hooton suggested the Society establish a central record bureau to place anthropological data forms in the hands of every member. He also got in a plug for one family of apes he has always respected--the chimp. "They're the closest to man--shove the chimpanzee in almost any situation among men and he wouldn't stick out--except perhaps favorably...
Playboy-Golfer Frank Stranahan, heir to Champion Spark Plug millions, who plays aggressive championship golf for the fun of it (British, Canadian, and Mexican amateur champion), and lifts weights on the side for his figure, bulged a few of his better muscles for the camera (see cut) in Pinehurst, N.C. Then he whacked out a few of his better shots to add the North-South Amateur crown to his collection, for the second time...
...Plug. In Guatemala City, enthusiastic over the Health Ministry's four new hearses, one daily newspaper gushed: "So elegant, so stylish, so luxurious, like an invitation...