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...imagine, for example, a hypothetical condom with the words "Rutger Fury!" printed liberally all over the box, wrapper, and condom proper. Not only will sex become more pleasurable for the user with such an exciting message prominently displayed, but the consumer will form pleasurable associations with my name. After this I would only have to put my name on any other shoddy product to rake in dollars like so many dead leaves...
...briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief problem was "to lie down without getting hurt. I started by kneeling and then did the difficult next bit by twisting myself sideways so that my mouth hit the pillow...
...other techniques of preservation are being used to preserve original volumes. Pamphlets are bound in cloth to prevent them from falling apart, and endangered books are kept in specially constructed hinged boxes. These boxes are used both for books bound with sharp clasps and for those with "a fragile wrapper or cover...
Behind his plain-wrapper exterior lies a poet at heart with a phenomenal memory for verse. Wesley Poulson, chairman of Coldwell Banker, says that he once engaged Telling in a duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...
...snack's creator, 67-year-old Bruce Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz., introduced the President's Lunch last November in a patriotic-looking red-silver-and-blue wrapper. Besides bee pollen, the ingredients include rolled oats, peanut butter, kelp, sunflower seeds and raisins. Brown predicts health-food fans will be abuzz about the bar this summer, when the 1.3-oz. snack becomes widely available in supermarkets for about...