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The idea of the singing commercial is that it will haunt the prospective buyer more than the nonsinging commercial. Kent and Johnson most notably haunted the radio public in the fall of 1939 with a little number which undoubtedly has had something to do with Pepsi-Cola's $14...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jingle All the Way | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

London was 8,000,000 people obsessed. Their waking hours were haunted by one persistent, bedeviling fact: flying bombs. And the flying bombs were causing too many waking hours; there was little sound sleep in London, or near it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: Obsessive Menace | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Man's chaotic world is shown by Joyce in the dreaming mind of Finnegans' principal character, H. C. Earwicker, an Irishman of Germanic stock haunted by his own fall from grace. Earwicker's dream, Campbell and Robinson believe, is of the kind described by Philosopher Schopenhauer when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clues to a Nightmare | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Fear's Pale Face. Under the glitter of the resurgent city, hunger, death and the pale face of fear haunted many & many a Roman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sunshine & Scars | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Unfinished Writer. The total effect of A Haunted House is saddening. It adds a postscript to the story of Virginia Woolf. That story's end was more melodramatic, more Elizabethan, than anything that she or her contemporaries wrote. The daughter of the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, with James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meteorites | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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