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...meager merger announcement gave no details-not even the new corporate name or directorate. No information has been forthcoming about the reasons for the merger. But the implications are obvious; McCann gains many valuable accounts including Congoleum-Nairn, Bon Ami, Valspar, Dictaphone, Agfa-Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger...
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Between the office of Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils of the incredibly yellow Denver Post and the office of his sly, genial partner, the late famed H. H. ("Tarn") Tammen, there used to be a desk to which each partner would send the kind of orders that great publishers send to their Men Friday. At that desk for many years sat Louis Levand, patient, portly, devoted. Brother John Levand was in the Post's circulation department. Brother Max, too, was on the staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business...
...opinion of L'Oeuvre the "goodness" of notre bon vin should be proved to Dry U. S citizens on every possible occasion, especially by the French Ambassador, yet M. Claudel has the reputation of serving less than any of his predecessors. Sneered L'Oeuvre with pointed sarcasm: "Of course it is not the business of an Ambassador to go around saying nasty things about the nation to which he is accredited. But . . . etc. . . . etc." In short, M. Claudel should say nice things about French things...
...Packard '20 in the coaching of the play, the Club obtained the assistance of M J. Bon de Sousa 1G a graduate of New College Oxford, who is directing the voice inflection of some of the character parts in a play of this sort, the correct pronunciation of the English dialects is one of the fine, points of the production and it is of the inflection that de Sousa is to be the coach...