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...leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required to parade up & down in front of a crowd with a lot of other...
Thomas Nelson & Sons, publishers of the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible, called on the advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn fof a market survey before deciding on the format. Among the facts & figures turned up in the B.B.D. & O. survey of 2,474 housewives...
...applauded, but few came forward to sign up. Boer nationalists like the Reformed Church precisely because it is such a handy political tool. Less politically minded churchgoers, instead of joining Reformed splinter sects like Devos', have switched to other Protestant sects or to Roman Catholicism. "Like vultures battening on a dead body," the church's official newspaper, Kerkbode, commented, "the sects batten on the church." Angrily the political predikants have rebuked Roman Catholic nuns for refusing to discriminate in hospital work between blacks & whites...
...educators looked earnestly for ways to batten down the hatches against the long blow. Should they accelerate courses in order to cram as many students into their programs as possible? That, said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, would only produce "an all-round lowering of standards and cheapening of products." Most college presidents agreed. What about outright Government subsidies? "We'd rather go around in rags," cried President V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton (111.) College-and most educators agreed with that...
...bigger, louder version of the old issue labeled isolationism. The issue was not whether to acknowledge an enemy, but where and how best to confront a threat that everyone recognized and none minimized. It was a question of where U.S. frontiers should be, whether there was time only to batten down the hatches, or still time to win, friends and stand against Russia...