Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for the common sense and research on the CIA and the students. We had just read a shocking, maudlin, sensational, full-page newspaper ad put out by Ramparts magazine, screaming to the world that "the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over the past 15 years," and other shameful accusations. We recognized it as a nasty, cheap attempt to stir up scandal in an effort to boost sales, but what would all of Europe think...
Almost unnoticed beyond Madison Avenue was the brief announcement last month that the ad agency of Kastor Foote Hilton & Atherton Inc. had changed its name to just plain Emerson Foote, Inc. The switch was significant: it meant that Emerson Foote, 60, had once again set up shop in a serious...
Foote is part of advertising folklore. Alabama-born, he was a bank teller and a clerk before he traveled to San Francisco for his first ad job in 1931 as a researcher with a small agency. By 1938, he was in the big time. As a creative man with Albert Lasker's Lord & Thomas agency, Foote handled the American Tobacco Co. account, led the group-think that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose...
...what he describes as a crisis of conscience. A reformed chain smoker who worried increasingly about cancer, Foote finally decided not to work for any agency that had a cigarette client. After 1964, he spent much of his time with the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health. An ad that he wrote for the cancer society is one of his personal favorites. Its message: "Give to Conquer Cancer-Strike Back...
...British claim that the name is no one's private property and that the non-Spanish brands are clearly so identified. Not always, objected the Spaniards, who hauled out a cartoon ad for "British Sherry" in which a matador shouts "Magnifico!" "Why a matador rather than a Devonshire lassie?" one judge asked. "The character in this cartoon," explained a man from Whiteways Cyder, one of the plaintiffs, "was misguided...