Word: sanborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
What are the card-playing habits of U.S. citizens? That was what the Association of American Playing Card Manufacturers wanted to know more about. So they hired New York's J. Walter Thompson advertising agency (Lux, Kraft Cheese, Chase & Sanborn) to investigate. Last week J. Walter Thompson Co. put into circulation a little red booklet revealing the results of its door-to-door survey...
Died. Pitts Sanborn, 61, music critic for the New York World-Telegram and dean of Manhattan music reviewers, program annotator for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, author of two novels and many books on music, radio commentator and authority on opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...February morning, the wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...
When Chase and Sanborn early this year cut their expensive, expansive, one-hour variety show with Charlie McCarthy to 30 minutes and still kept its drawing power, they started something. Onto the chopping block last week went Bristol-Myers' wry-face Comedian Fred Allen; others will probably follow him at expiration of their contracts. Allen refused to pare his Town Hall to half its former length; looked around for a new backer...