Word: russel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salesman. Prentiss Brown's second major deputy is big, genial Lou Russel Maxon, who built up Maxon, Inc. of Detroit from a nickel-&-dime business into one of the foremost U.S. advertising agencies. He has the job of making the people love the price policy. Brown and Maxon went to work to humanize...
...forget "Red" Schuette's offer to serve three watches for anyone willing to take his if he pulls one around March 20. And you oughtta see her picture, you'd know why. She's this week's candidate for the "most charming wives" club which already includes Mrs. Russel Preston, Jr., Mrs. Warren Haddaway, and Mrs. W. H. Fisher. . . Something will be done to get midshipmen's wives together--one of these days...
...took a really veteran Western Union messenger boy, Russel T. Mann, who has been at his job since early 1939, to remember that people in prewar days had the tipping habit. "Hell, we never get any now," said a young and disgusted bicycle courrier...
Strip for Action (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; produced by Oscar Serlin, Lindsay & Crouse) is a ramshackle play and an uproarious evening. Playwrights Lindsay & Crouse plunged into work with a good idea: turning loose a burlesque troupe in an army camp. To this half-tropical, half-topical brew they add colorfulness, craziness, sex and laughs-they know...
This week versatile, 53-year-old Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...