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...W.I.B.'s wartime experience is typical, Publicist Andrew and his staff (probably about 150 men & women) will spend a good deal of time answering questions. During the war, W.I.B.'s New York office answered an average of 50 telephone and mail queries a day. Typical questions: Has Halifax a good private school? What provinces can an ice carnival play in on the Sabbath? "Dear Sirs: Please send all possable infermeation as I need the infermeation for school thank...
...with an inexperienced three-man faculty and 18 boys, Kent School opened its doors in a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse. Father Sill was vowed to lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience, but where Kent School was involved, he proved a shameless beggar, a tireless publicist, a resourceful promoter and a born teacher of boys...
Salvador Dali, surrealist painter and publicist whose trademarks are droopy watches, meandering cyclists and gangrenous torsos, promised Manhattan a show this winter, and assured the world that art could do much "to promote greater understanding between nations; it is the only international language that people can understand...
...team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
Died. Major Arthur Corbett-Smith, 65, author and publicist; by his own hand (gun shot); in Margate, England. In a note to the police he explained: "I've had a very wonderful life, but I'm too old now. . . . I view with loathing the incidence and stigmata of old age. Age, with rare exceptions, is repulsive to look upon, and its so-called wisdoms are very problematical. Every man and woman at the age of 60 should show cause why he or she should continue to exist...