Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observer who was not amused was OPA. Reports that 75% of the $20 million-a-month sales on Automobile Row were under the table and over the ceiling made OPA decide to take action. Last week OPA agents swooped down on Automobile Row, after they had laid the ground by paying marked money to dealers for the over-the-ceiling sales. One salesman was arrested after accepting $2,434 in marked money from an OPA agent for a new Chevrolet (ceiling price: $1,102); another was booked for demanding a $1,409 bonus. OPA's total haul...
Jabbing Radio Row has been Henry Morgan's favorite pastime for 14 years. He has lost good jobs and good sponsors by ridiculing commercials, mocking soap operas, burlesquing bigwigs and romping through childish pranks. Philadelphia's WCAU once sacked him when he listed station executives (whom he seldom met) in the missing persons' bureau broadcast. (Says Morgan, gleefully: "It was days before they discovered...
...Stand. Jaws dropped all along ad agency row last week as "the Fear" was felt in the offices of Ruthrauff & Ryan. Mr. Hill's $3,000,000 radio account (Frank Morgan and Jack Benny) was quietly taken from R.&R. and handed to Foote, Cone & Belding, thus giving the agency all of American Tobacco's advertising accounts (worth about $900,000 a year in commissions to F.C.&B.). It was the second body blow for R.&R. in the past two weeks (TIME, Sept. 2) but the agency seemed to be bearing up nobly. Although many an adman...
Busily Engaged. In Houston, prospective Bridegroom Frank Trevino asked for a fourth marriage license, explained that his future mother-in-law had torn up the first, during a family row someone had torn up the second, his bride-to-be had torn up the third...
...boldness" of the Seven startled huffy Canadian critics, began a row which once reached the floor of the House of Commons. The starkest of the Seven, Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...