David Astor, the Observer's editor, appointed assistant editor Michael Davie to be in charge of an Observer magazine and produce a "dummy" copy to circulate to potential advertisers.
In this instance, officials at the magazine made a dummy copy of the cover, which substituted a lone shot of the bachelor for the photo of the happy couple.
That The Decisive Moment belongs to a different time is immediately apparent from its cover, which is not a photograph but a signature cut-out by Henri Matisse, who offered to design the cover when Cartier-Bresson shimed him a dummy copy.
Print off a dummy copy of the paper, including the works cited page.
Cats for Dummies (45,000), Home Improvement for Dummies and Everyday Math for Dummies (35,000 copies apiece) haven't looked so smart.
Personal Finance for Dummies (874,000 copies in print) and Golf for Dummies (511,000) did well.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, Portishead's debut album, "Dummy," sold 1.1 million copies and its second, "Portishead," sold 635,000.
"Dummy" produced mannequin and copy -- still not what I was looking for.
The first print run of "DOS for Dummies," a cautious 7,500 copies, trailed the latest edition of DOS by a long six months.
He probably called in his deputy, Ed McConnell, "and between Forest and Ed, they dummied up some copy, like 'Jones for Sheriff.' Then they went back to the car to see if the stickers would fit".
