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When the Associated Advertising Clubs of America expanded into the grander International Advertising Association in 1928, the above paean and many another was sung to the Association's smiling, backslapping, handshaking new president, an amazingly energetic exuder of amiability. Last week hundreds of admen whose hands Charles Clark Younggreen has shaken and who take pleasure in being able to call him "C. C." were impressed to learn that he, upon whom has been conferred "every honor that organized advertising had to give," had set at rest the profession's uncertainty as to his future affiliation. Two years...
...Microbe Hunters, the author writes of nineteen Russian peasants, moujiks, who went to Paris (after having been badly mangled by a mad wolf) for the Pasteur treatment of rabies. Dr. (?) de Kruif further relates that all but three of these unfortunates were saved, "and all the world raised a paean of thanks" to Pasteur...
...Seven years ago, when I was a student in Harvard, I traveled with the football team to Princeton and witnessed a victory. The score was 5-0. Under the stimulation of the victory, and the rather intense rivalry, I composed a paean. It was my intention to send this little effusion to Coach Bill Roper on the occasion of Harvard's next victory over a Roper-coached team. Unfortunately, the next three games were 34-0, 36-0, and 12-0 in favor of Princeton, and there have been no games since. Now, it appears, Mr. Roper is retiring...
Five Star Final is this season's newspaper play. But, unlike its more cynical predecessors, it is an earnest paean of hate directed against tabloid journalism. By the middle of Act II the abuse has become so boundless that it is flogging a dead horse...
...coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda for the "new," educated Negro, partly a paean of press clippings...