Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cockles has the record so far in Cowie Hall dates; practically every night, we'd say. Herb Wellings, in addition to his War Production ad libs, is getting other ideas also. They say that he may beat John White to the altar afrter...
...Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
...Vaughn Flannery, Maryland horse-breeder and ad-man-turned-painter - for his first one-man show, of nostalgic semi-abstractions, mainly based on horse-racing and theatrical subjects...
June. A Dixon, Calif, newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...
Since 1939, the Advertising Research Foundation has polled readers of 73 U.S. newspapers, asking about every single story and ad in one issue of each paper: "Did you read it?" By last week the Foundation had a lot of facts to add up. Striking an average for all 73 papers, it found that the following percentage of men & women had read at least one item in the following departments...