Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the first Low Numbers were inducted, this Esquire GI has popped in & out of our leading magazines. Back in '41 he rode troop trains-in razor-creased wools and a Pershing cap! He later appeared in Guada, happy, smiling, clean as a boy scout poster. He arrived safely, and none the worse for wear, in North Africa. He showed up in New Guinea, a notoriously messy theater of war, and went so far as to sit near a very small puddle of water...
...have seen strong minded, determined women-haters melt into the love-mellowed spectacle of a grinning newlywed. And why? Simply because of unpreparedness. "Know your protagonist" to paraphrase a current war-poster, that's part of the answer. You too can suffer your own personal Pearl Harbor. This dissertation is designed to fill in the gaps and to cover your Achilles Heel with moral mortar...
...Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...
...important is the right kind of crystal that the Signal Corps last month set up a special inspection laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, and plans for the mechanization of quartz mining are well under way. The sentiments of the Signal Corps are visible in a big poster which hangs in many a cutting room. It reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE ... -------ON THE RUN." In radio code the dots & dashes spell...
Most of as know Dr. Chaffee by sight (or by the poster of the Quiz Kids) and have heard-Irim speak to us upon our arrival. However, few realize what a prominent scientist and busy executive he is. All the C E's are familiar (or fervently wish they were) with his text on the Theory of Thermionic Tube. He is to only Director of Cruft Laboratory and its teaching staff but holds the combined honor of being Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering...