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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite Seventeen's success, advertising has been getting harder to sell (Seventeen's 1948 ad receipts of $3,300,000 were slightly below 1947). Owner and part-time Publisher Walter Annenberg decided it was high time he had a full-time publisher to get promotion, advertising and editorial departments working together to plug the magazine. With his Philadelphia Inquirer, pulps (Official Detective Stories and Gags) and a string of daily racing forms, he was too busy to do the job himself, but Alice Thompson seemed just the hand to entrust it to. To fill her old spot...
Overture. In Minneapolis, Arvid Benson placed an ad in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune: "Will the driver who hit [me] at 16th and LaSalle Saturday night please call...
Last Call. In Mexico City, a local newspaper ran a plaintive classified ad: "Young man about to be married seeks older experienced man to dissuade him from idea...
...classified ad in a Los Angeles paper was calculated to stir up the wanderlust and unseat the judgment of many a steno with a new Toni...
...ad was placed by "Tours of Enchantment," a travel agency operating out of rented desk space in a Long Beach (Calif.) airline ticket agency. "Tours" was mostly a mail drop and slight, soft-spoken Charlie Otterman, 37. For a mere $385 the tourists would be lapped in luxury aboard a slim, rakish yacht, served the "finest of foods . . . five times daily," and by night would dance beneath the golden Pacific moon...