The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less

Stepping back into time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not i...

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Main Author: Ryan, Terry
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001.
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Summary:Stepping back into time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not in the boardroom, but at the ironing board. Evelyn Ryan won every appliance her family ever owned by entering contests. It wasn't just the winning that was miraculous, it was the timing.
Physical Description:351 p.: ill.
ISBN:0743211227
Author Notes:Terry Ryan, the sixth of Evelyn Ryan's ten children, is the writing half of T. O. Sylvester, a long-running cartoon in the "San Francisco Chronicle". The author of two books of poetry, she lives in San Francisco, California.

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