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...grew from a yellow soap bearing the trademarked name "Sunlight." To sell it, the Lancashire grocer's son flooded England with ads asking a magic question: "Why does a woman look old sooner than a man?" No one ever answered that...
Lord Leverhulme was a grocer's son, He learned to sell when he was young, And all the tune that he could play Was "Advertising Makes It Pay" Over the hills and across the skies, By God it pays to advertise...
Soon "Sunlight" was shining around the world, and the grocer's son was a peer, Lord Leverhulme (pronounced leave-er-hume), Viscount of the Western Isles. By the time brusque, autocratic, globetrotting Lord Leverhulme † died in 1925, his mercantile empire was well on its way to preeminence. By last week it had few equals anywhere in size, prosperity, diversity and complexity...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...
...from Boone County. The recipe came to Callaway when I came as Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer John Renner summed up Fulton's big day: "Hell, enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium...