Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's sad songs, people merely sob or suffer from wounded pride. Moreover, Nelly is no longer a lady Stephen Foster would have understood. She tells her boy friend: "Come on-a my house," or howls "hold me, thrill me, kiss...
...popular American ballad has, in fact, been written to much this prescription for generations-though the degrees of moroseness and suggestiveness vary with presumably deeper tides. People no longer actually perish in the contemporary ballad, as they did in Stephen Foster...
...fleeting, telltale smile crossed Stephen's face-and the counselor had made the big breakthrough in Stephen's case...
Common Sense. His methods worked because they were simple. "All you need in this business, " Hannagan liked to say, "is newspaper training and common sense." Stephen Jerome Hannagan had both. At 14, he broke in as a $1-a-week part-time cub on his home-town Lafayette (Ind.) Morning Journal. He was campus correspondent for the Indianapolis Star during two years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work...
When Schweppes asked him to take over, he was "intrigued." The first thing he did was get more sugar by a series of complicated trading transactions, "all legal, of course." Then he began to advertise heavily with Schweppigrams* and hired Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter to write pun-laden ads about an imaginary locality called Schweppshire, with such landmarks as Schwepsom Downs, Schwepping Forest and Schwepstow Castle (noted because "Queen Elizabeth Schwept here"), and peopled by such notables as the poet Schwinburne and the author of the "Schweppshire Lad." With such high jinks Hooper tripled sales, and profits last year Schwept...