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...vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising) to become publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., Manhattan bargain store, succeeding Kenneth Collins who left to form his own agency (TIME. Nov. 14). A onetime reporter on his hometown paper (Grand Rapids News), Adman Hollister is famed for waggish japery, is head of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, an organization of former students of the crotchety Harvard sage. In 1927 he won Harvard's Bok Advertising Award for an R. H. Macy institutional campaign. For the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, in which he holds the position of "tibia...
Swann's Courtesan, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist...
Kolyumist Kitchen presented his story as fact. It was, however, invented and told (without euphemisms) at the last meeting of the American Society for the Control of Cancer by a waggish Manhattan surgeon...
...Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...
...pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...