Word: llewelyn
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...predicted that popular practitioner in purple prose, United Mine Workers President John Llewelyn Lewis, when his brain child was born eleven years ago. Last week the U.M.W.'s employer-financed Welfare and Retirement Fund mailed out its slick-paper annual report, bound in a red velvetlike cover, and the statistics in it were nearly as impressive as old John L.'s prose. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the fund took in $157 million (its best year, largely because of increased soft-coal production), laid out $138 million in $100-a-month pensions, medical benefits...
Thus in Frederic Wakeman's novel The Hucksters, Soap Tycoon Evan Llewelyn Evans boomed out advice to a deferential huddle of ad-agency men. Last week Veteran Adman Emerson Foote, 50, a prototype for one of the leading characters in Wakeman's fiction, took the advice in real life, chin-chinned with himself and with his associates and spun the compass. He thereupon quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew...