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Are you ready for some football? Brand marketers have been for months, but they’re no longer thinking only of Super Bowl Sunday. Many have expanded from

When kingdoms vanish in the night. . .

— and nations wake to find the enemy within their gates. . .

Millions of people snap up each extra as it comes off the press and scan each headline in fear and horror

Dear American:

Ours is the tragic privilege – –

The tragic privilege of living and taking part in the greatest worldwide military crisis since Napoleon, the greatest American election crisis since Lincoln, the greatest economic crisis since Adam Smith

Dear American:

And now the news is happening to us!

Its unpredictable turns and changes are altering the whole course of your life — the job you work at, the town you live in, the clothes you wear and the food you eat

Dear American:

The Nazi Blitzkrieg has swept like a flame —

— over Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Northern France.

In eight short weeks kingdoms and governments have fallen, peoples have been subjugated

Dear Reader:

This is the dullest war in history

Alliance Data Systems Corp.’s Epsilon unit will acquire Abacus from DoubleClick Inc. for $435 million.

J. C. Penney Co. Inc. has fired executive vice president and chief operating officer Catherine West but gave no reason.

DigiMedical Solutions Inc. has named Lloyd Rice vice president of technology.