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...Litnch, exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, made Manet notorious-as an eccentric. "A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth," exclaimed one critic. "I search in vain for the meaning of this unbecoming rebus." "Is this drawing? Is this painting?" cried another. "Manet thinks himself resolute and powerful. He is only hard...
...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
...Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared publicly. During this interval the company and its advertising...
...Golds fourth among big-selling cigarets, but neither that nor "Double your money back" offers in 1935 and 1936 promised to boost Old Gold sales anywhere near the Big Three. Lennen & Mitchell, who are also agents for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, had kept an attentive eye on the rebus campaigns run as circulation stunts by various U. S. newspapers. Last summer Adman Philip Wieting Lennen persuaded Lorillard that if people would buy newspapers to enter such contests they would also buy Old Golds...
Hired by Lennen & Mitchell to do the job for Lorillard was a firm called Publishers Service Co., Inc., previously employed by Publisher Julius David Stern to cook up rebus contests for his Philadelphia Record and New York Post. In the Post building on Manhattan's West Street, Publishers Service has barnlike offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting...