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...Hell Editor'' et idem...
That the entire country is commercially going to hell in a hack is certainly not true. While generally bad, business is not equally bad everywhere, a point not generally appreciated, but brought out last week when Dun & Bradstreet published in Dun's Review a nationwide chart of trade volume at the end of January (see map). Prepared by Dr. L. D. H. Weld of McCann-Erickson, Inc., the chart was based upon Federal Reserve Board figures for bank debits, wholesale sales and department store sales, R. L. Polk & Co. figures on new car registrations, Editor & Publisher's statistics...
...even more remote than that of most crackers, but in his own eyes Jody lives an eventful life. There is no school within reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes...
...Came suddenly got its second wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...
Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...