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DIED. Ross Roy, 85, founder and chairman of the thriving Detroit-based advertising agency (1982 billings: $222 million) that bears his name, who revolutionized auto ad-sales techniques by introducing comparison studies for Dodge in the mid-1920s, and then applied the strategy to a variety of other products; of Parkinson's disease; in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich...
...mark of the well-dressed American man from colonial times to the early 20th century. As late as 1910 it was difficult to buy a pair of trousers with belt loops. But when World War I doughboys came marching home, they wore coarse yarn belts, and by the late 1920s the popularity of suspenders began to wane...
...spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory, was invited back to Harvard, was expelled for a second time, served in the Navy during World War I and went on to study science at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. During the 1920s he spent five years in an alcoholic depression following the death of a four-year-old daughter. One night in 1927, while standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, he found himself redeemed from his thoughts of self-destruction by a private vision. He told himself, "You do not have...
...airs as they put on their work clothes, willing to do anything to survive. Composer Paul Dessau was a hired hand on a chicken farm; Writer Walter Mehring became a warehouse foreman; Philosopher Heinrich Blucher shoveled chemicals in a factory. In the sassy spirit of Berlin cabarets of the 1920s, they devised impromptu dictionaries of slang, with emphasis on "dough" and "bread." Twelve-tone Composer Arnold Schoenberg dispensed to fellow exiles his one-note advice for social success: When in doubt, smile...
While it took the squad several years to reach such prominence, Sands quickly achieved recognition by knocking off several of the country's top players. And in doing so, the Los Angeles native became the first Harvard All American tennis player since the 1920s. In fact, the giant killer managed the feat three times, becoming Harvard's only triple All American netman...