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...their employes indefinitely. In Olympia, Wash., most butchers opened only two days a week - and hoped that a little something to sell would come along. In all Boston there was not enough beef to stock one good-sized meat store. In Maine there was a sharp increase in illegal deer hunting...
Second Generation. Most of George Washington Hill's success was due to the whopping sums he spent to trumpet his products ($20,000,000 in one year alone). He was socially retiring, lived in quiet retreat on his Hudson Valley estate in Irvington, N.Y., where he kept Japanese deer, black & white swans and two dachshunds (Mr. Lucky and Mrs. Strike). But in his ads he was loud. He insisted on catchy slogans, exaggeration and repetition, tapped the untouched women's cigaret market with "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet...
...home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches of prizes, including 104 cases of Pepsi-Cola...
...seems to me that because horses are destroyed by barn fires it should not be looked upon as the final answer to the equine's intelligence. It is my guess that if a deer and a horse were side by side during an approaching forest fire, they would both move in the direction of safety. Moreover, many a horse-wise Westerner would probably lay a bet with omniscient Mr. Buck that the horse would be the one that would escape...
Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned...