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...gathereth gold for the Department of Internal Revenue and hath no fun is a sounding ass and a tinkling idiot." Thus, wittily jumbling his '"Biblical passages, Madison Avenue's Charles Hendrickson Brower, 56, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, last week summed up what is wrong with the U.S. salesman, and perhaps the whole U.S. economy. Adman Brower told the National Sales Executives' convention in Washington that Americans in general and salesmen in particular have forgotten that work can be fun-and so they are not working hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING & MARKETING: The New Mediocrity | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...tympanum surrounded by Mark's lion, Matthew's angel, John's eagle, Luke's ox is Christ. Adjoining those Gospel writers is the idea of Matthew XXIII, 57: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...SCRIPTURAL Senior comes down repeating half mournfully, half reproachfully: 'O Sage. O Sage, thou that crusheth the Junior and aweth the Fresh, how oft would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.' A conscience some what seared suggests, 'Was, nimmer?' And the laboring spirit answers, 'Not since the matron came.' - Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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