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...gentle to the eye, but frozen and cruelly hard to the ill-shod men of Washington's rabble in arms. The back road by which the Continental General hoped to outflank Lord Cornwallis was full of tree stumps-which made heavy work for the cannoneers wrestling the rag-muffled wheels. Perhaps the General, flushed with his Christmas Night victory at Trenton, was now going...
STORY ON JUSTIN DART AND UNITED-REXALL [TIME, JULY1], WHILE EXCELLENT FACTUAL REPORT, CONTAINS ONE STATEMENT SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE MISINTERPRETATION: "NOW HE BURIES PRESCRIPTION COUNTERS IN THE BACK OF STORES LEST THEY TAKE UP VALUABLE SPACE FOR RAG DOLLS, BOOKS, ETC. . . ." FOR BOTH COMPANY-OWNED STORES AND THOUSAND INDEPENDENT REXALLITIES MR. DART HAS CONTINUALLY PRESCRIBED PRIMARY EMPHASIS FOR THE PRESCRIPTION COUNTER. IN SHORT, IT'S .THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS. IT IS TRUE THAT SAID COUNTERS ARE USUALLY LOCATED IN THE REAR OF THE STORE FOR TWO REASONS: PROTECTION FOR THE DRUGS, SECLUSION FOR THE PHARMACIST TO INSURE...
...right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change: he separated soda fountains and drug counters, so that soda-sippers and sandwich-chewers wouldn't be confronted by laxative ads. (Now he buries prescription counters in the back of stores lest they take up valuable space for rag dolls, books, etc.) In 1941 United hired Dart away from Walgreen's (his wife had divorced him 2 years before), upped him to President of United later. He consolidated United's sprawling holdings, bought up its bad leases, closed down unprofitable stores, built up good will...
This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...
...Origins of Some Naval Terms and Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company...