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...Technicolor, in piercing circus poster colors, puts the lassies into rich kirtles and the laddies into brave plaid pantaloons. Everyone also cuts such fine figures of speech that Parks gets an unscheduled giggle when he says (of his own destiny): "I canna stop the wind...
...Music. From our standpoint, this display is designed to call attention to TIME, to our Music department and to our advertising pages. It is a quiz consisting of 24 enlargements of TIME covers, with the cover portrait replaced by famous composers from Bach to Gershwin. Attached to each cover poster is an excerpt from a story in TIME'S Music department-but omitting the composer's name. With the excerpt as a clue, passers-by are asked to pause at department store windows, read the quiz questions and guess the names of the composers. The correct answers...
West, the lead in the impending Harvard Dramatic Club production of "An Enemy of The People," was pictured on a bogus police "wanted" poster, merely for publicity purposes of course. However the men who keep the University clean did not see it that way. The actor's features were a bit too realistically felonious for the janitors to percieve the hoax...
...Richer Life." The villages in the valleys are peaceful and primitive. I stood in the main street of Belmont, which has a population of 349 souls, and looked at a red, white and blue poster. It showed a blond young giant in blue overalls holding a peasant girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes...
...poster was tattered; the top right hand corner had been torn off, as if someone had tried to wrench the whole thing down, and over it had been clumsily scrawled in pencil, "Vendus comme les autres" (sold out, like the others...