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...this Mr. Ernst's Associate Counsel Callman Gottesman added, out of court, a sarcastic crack: "Many readers of the Associated Press have doubtless long suspected them of manufacturing news, but never expected the company's learned attorney to so admit in open court...
...Benton's class of 1921 at Yale there was a nimble-witted youngster named Chester B. ("Chet") Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came...
...Ohio State's crack sprinter, Negro Jesse Owens: four events, one (100-yd. dash) in world's record time (9.4 sec.); at a track meet between Ohio State and Southern California that ended in a 7½-to-7½ tie; at Columbus...
...footed" means not slow but fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace...
Messrs. Ellis & McKitterick were well aware of the fact that the dealer was fed up with profitless prosperity. They also knew that they enjoyed considerable personal prestige in the trade. As crack salesmen for the old Tobacco Trust, later for Melachrino, and then as vice presidents of Tobacco Products Corp., they had built up reputations for giving dealers a break. President Ellis could cash a check in any cigar store in any U. S. city of 5,000 or more. All in all, the time seemed ripe for a 15? cigaret that really sold...