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Smith, Jack
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1 item: 62-pp. transcript of interview with columnist Jack Smith by Marshall Berges. Notable names & subjects include: Smith recounts editing a story by Otis Chandler and, feeling that every one was being to gentle with Otis and that he would never learn writing that way, Smith "butchered it," finding fault with everything (pp. 1 - 2) ; Smith describes a typical day and his planning & writing columns - Smith remarks, "I write about whatever comes to mind...(but I) make it clear that I don't know what I'm talking about" (pp. 4) ; "desperation is the mother of many columns..." (pp. 5) ; Smith says after he stopped worrying about being repetitious, he wrote on whatever was "uppermost in my mind day by day" (pp. 7) ; typical morning "ritual" (pp. 11) ; heads (headlines for his columns) - "never write them, never suggest them, never change them" - and he shares stories related to the fact that the heads are popular, usually a pun ; he mentions several times his belief that the subconscious works on problems for people, such as writers ; his childhood and youth (pp. 20 - 25) ; "I took journalism at Belmont High School ...the teacher didn't know anything about it" (pp. 23) ; Smith recounts his life prior to WW II - editing a paper for CCC, in Merchant Marines for a time, he married, worked on Honolulu Advertiser, etc. (pp. 26 - 29) ; memories of various writing jobs - "I worked for 8 or 9 newspapers, (a) wire service and the Marine Corps, real estate, public relations...a grasshopper ; (pp. 30+) more memories of his writing career ; family life (pp. 52 - 55)
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Douglas Busch : Scene on the street
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"The images in 'Scene on the Street' focus primarily on the 1980s and early 1990s, as the photographer lived and moved about from Denver to Chicago, Atlanta, and other cities. With his huge photographic apparatus, he captured the multilayered architectural evidence of each city's growing pains and exposed the threads of the fabric of city life"--From introduction.
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America's favorite food : the story of Campbell Soup Company
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Campbell's origins go back to 1869, when Joseph Campbell and Abraham Anderson created a business in preserved foods. Jams, jellies, fruits, and vegetables in cans were the staples of the company until 1897, when Dr. John T. Dorrance, a nephew of one of the company's executives then working for $7.50 a week, invented condensed soup. Trained as a chemist, Dorrance had also studied cooking with gourmet chefs in Europe and his combined skills proved the key to success. Within twenty years he not only owned the company, but also demonstrated a marketing genius that nearly eclipsed his other talents; selling soup at ten cents a can he was taking in some fifteen million dollars a year by 1915. Douglas Collins narrates the history with gusto, weaving into the company's development interesting facts about the origins of soup itself and about how America's working women (who also remained homemakers) came to rely on convenience foods. Here, too, are insights into the skillful advertising and marketing decisions that have made Campbell Soup Company a model of successful business practice: the adoption of the red and white label (1898), the creation of the Campbell Kids (1904) - who remain fixtures of the company's visual presentation - and the diversification into other products: Pepperidge Farm baked goods, Prego spaghetti sauces, Vlasic pickles, Godiva chocolates and more. By 1962, the Campbell soup can was such an icon of American life that Pop artist Andy Warhol memorialized it in not one but several dozen works of art. And, Collins tells us, Warhol did so at least partly because he had grown up on Campbell's Tomato Soup, which remained a favorite of his. In addition to a special portfolio of Warhol artworks are historical images from the Campbell archives, photographs made for Fortune magazine in 1935 and 1955 by the great photojournalists Margaret Bourke-White and Dan Weiner, and a gallery of newspaper and magazine advertisements, posters, and related products - including two generations of Campbell kid dolls.
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Omaha! A noble charity. To erect on orphan asylum and home for sick and destitute persons ... J.M. Pattee
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Image of a broadside for a charity drawing organized by J.M Pattee of Omaha, Nebraska, taking place on March 31st, 1873 to raise funds for building an orphan asylum. Information about the charity event is printed on both sides of the broadside, and there are three columns of text on each side. The central text is provides information about ticket prices, and provides a prize list. Columns surrounding the print include promotional information about J.M. Pattee, testimonials, endorsements, and information about the humanitarian intent of the drawing. Verso includes more promotional statements about the charity drawing and lists names of former lottery winners.
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