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...wrote: "First I invited ten reporters from the advertising trade press to luncheon. I told them of my insane ambition to build a major agency from scratch. From that point on, they gave me priceless tips on new business and printed every release I sent them, however trivial, bless them...
...spectrum you'll find the irrepressible KITTY HAAS. Bubbling over with her usual enthusiasm, Kitty breathlessly speaks of the "mad, wild things" she is selling in her new shop on 42a Brattle Street. (A fire on Dec. 31st destroyed everything, so she has begun again from scratch.) Kitty prides herself on her fabrics, imported from the oddest countries. What she calls her "new, darling designs" turn out to be merely a modified and more sophisticated A-line. She has a shepherdess's dress complete with plunge which should be interesting. Kitty and her "fantastic seamstress" will make you a cotton...
Harvard bats were silent in the next three contests: but the team kept on winning with a combination of scratch singles, sacrifices, steals, and brilliant pitching...
Unscratched Itch. Republican committee members were just itching to question Jenkins-but the Democrats refused to scratch. "It wasn't necessary to call Jenkins," insisted North Carolina's Democratic Senator B. Everett Jordan, the Rules Committee chairman. "We had his affidavit. There's no conflict. There's nothing to get excited about...
This is clear, forceful writing. As a short story, "Scratch" is a failure, but no one can realistically expect perfection from undergraduate writers. The technical side of writing can be learned, but Goodwin has the one necessary endowment of a developing author--a facility with words, an entertaining style. It is the lack of this attribute which makes the rest of the Lion Rampant a failure...