Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...double-page ad in the New York Times posed two flat-footed questions: "What Evening Newspaper Leads the Nation in Total Advertising Linage?" and "What Morning Newspaper Ranks Sixth in the Nation in Total Advertising Linage?" Readers who scanned the tables printed below must have done a double take when they saw the answers: the San Jose News and the San Jose Mercury. How did those papers get so far up on the lists? And where is San Jose anyway...
...What ad campaigns will have to be scrubbed and what themes will be stressed depends on the man chosen to administrate the new code. Hopeful that they can satisfy critics with the kind of strong "czar" professional football has, cigarette companies will give their man broad powers. He cannot have any connection with the industry or own its stocks. Once chosen, he will have absolute veto over all advertising. Penalties for disobeying his veto will range...
...national demonstrations planned by Stetler's ad hoc May 2 Committee will occur in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Madison...
...trade press, of course, is substantially the daily ad columnists. We break most of the big news. And we are followed more closely and with more interest than TIME indicates...
Going from odd job to odd job, he tried acting. He saw an ad in the paper for would-be actors at the American Negro Theater. But he talked in a singsong island accent that made people collapse with laughter. Buying a small radio, he began to listen to the pure tones of the network announcers, repeating after them their every rounded phrase, commercials and all. When he went back to the American Negro Theater some months later...