Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamilton F. Potter, Jr. '50, the "jilted Freshman" who advertised yesterday for "120 lbs. of American womanhood," found his CRIMSON want ad successful--in fact, amazingly...
Conant spends his mornings at his Massachusetts Hall office, ticking off a crowded schedule of meetings with professors, deans and administrative officers. About ten afternoons a month Conant presides over the meetings of the faculties. He also presides over "ad hoc committees," which Conant (who invented them) calls "the best invention Cambridge has seen in years." Aware that standing committees to fill faculty vacancies invited politicking, Conant decided in 1941 to draw up a new committee every time there was a new vacancy. Prominent outsiders sit on the committees...
...tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then he returned to his birthplace, Ste. Adèle, to set forth in a monthly pamphlet his views on almost everything. Since his views are never tame, he offended nearly everyone. Finally, he wrote a short novel, and the radio adaptation, begun in 1939, became Un Homme...
...Adèle, whose opinion of the mayor is divided, Grignon is more unbelievable than Seraphim. He struts through the village, strikes poses for tourists or opponents. But he has an eye for new scenes or faces. He mines his town for plots and characters for Un Homme...
...various times, his ad campaigns had the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, American Medical Association and the New York Times on his neck. Hill squelched lesser critics handily: "Why should I justify [my copy]? It has paid...