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...advertising business, it is not news when dog eats dog. But last week admen were watching a seven-week-old pup who had just taken a $3.5 million bite out of one of the biggest mastiffs in the business. The aggressive young pup was the Manhattan firm of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, Inc. Its chief victim: Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., sixth largest ad agency ($32 million a year in accounts...
Dinner at the White House is an almost bite-by-bite account of the dinner, an estimate of the principals present and finally (and mainly) a series of bitter reflections on U.S. foreign policy. For that night Adamic decided that the Prime Minister would never accept the Adamic Plan-Two-Way Passage-or anything resembling it. The Churchill expression "was one of complex annoyance. ... He hadn't liked it at all. I was a bloody nuisance dragged in by F.D.R. and he had had to put up with me. This was implicit in his manner, integral with his whole...
...Abadan strike and related developments were reminders to the West that in large parts of the world the economic and social status quo could not be preserved indefinitely and that unless Britain and the U.S. improved the status quo the Russians would go on gnawing-or take a quick bite...
...called on Editor Hardy at his home. Unless he went down to the office and apologized, they said darkly, they could not be responsible for what might happen. He went along with them, found 100 angry men waiting outside the Times and decided to eat a bite of crow. He had not aimed that editorial at anybody in Upson County (it had voted for Carmichael), he said, and if he had hurt anybody's feelings, he was sorry. He would say so in the next issue...
...admirer of left-wing ideology, Dr. Scott once defined the difference between Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...