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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westerner: Shades of Buffalo Bill, mister! You should've seen these deserts four years ago. White and dry like a steer's skeleton...
...roll compared to 45? during the War. Secondly, Scott's advertising has been persistent and effective, if somewhat outspoken. In 1932 this advertising reached a pinnacle, which Scott officials recall with obvious pain, in the "acid campaign," whose headlines took the slant of "I'VE GOT TO HAVE *** A MINOR OPERATION!'' Current campaigns still stress "harsh tissue dangers" but somewhat less crassly. A sample comic-strip ad today shows little Jeanie prattling, "It scratches awful, mummy...
...cabin door, but no one emerged. The doorhandle wiggled, police tugged from outside, but the door stayed shut. Said a bystander: "Now they'll have to go back to Germany and get the key." Finally the door popped open. Brisk Captain Alfred Henke emerged, said: "We've been sitting down for more than 24 hours. Now we want to stand up and get rested...
...repeated expression of naïve Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace is "I was astonished." Last week, Secretary Wallace "was astonished at the number of speculative accounts controlled by so-called commodity counselors or 'tipsters.' " His astonishment was conveyed in a letter to a unique Washington meeting that marked the opening of a campaign to squelch such tipsters. Present were officers from most of the important...
...brilliant writing. Its central character is a comic grotesque called Wilt, a washed-out, oldtime, expatriate newspaperman, middleaged, garrulous, full of stories he never got around to writing. In a promising beginning, Wilt is introduced on a Paris street corner in mysterious talk with a big, naïve pal named Bernie, a medical student just arrived from the Midwest in hopes of meeting his hero, a famed French toxicologist. Wilt, who had met Bernie only a few hours before, offers to arrange the meeting...