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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed on at P. & G., first as a soap salesman, then in the advertising department. In the early 1930s he had an offer from a big New York ad agency. "I'm not going to take it," he told a friend. "I'm going to stay with Procter & Gamble. But I'm not going to be satisfied to be advertising manager." At that time he was still years away from being advertising manager-but he had already...
...Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, as though cut to its professional quick, hastily disclaimed any responsibility for so much as a comma of the Eisenhower-Dulles effort...
...giving Allen and his fellow TV Titan Ed Sullivan plenty to worry about on the Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems to be worth millions). Also, Maverick for the first time kicked dust into the face of the almost peerless Jack Benny...
...crusade against crime" but manages so responsible a grip on its sensational material that it has won the help and plaudits of Dallas churchmen and law-enforcement officials. Questioner Wyatt, 40, who originated and produces the show, is a onetime disk jockey, radio writer and veteran of Madison Avenue ad agencies who fled to Texas 3½ years ago, and spends most of his time running a Dallas ad business. Says he: "This may sound corny, but the authorities tell us we've actually helped criminals change their ways...
Bombers B-52 (Warner) is a $1,400,000 want ad for Air Force technicians-the ground crews needed to keep 'em flying in the Strategic Air Command. SAC being what it is, a powerful discouragement to missile warfare, audiences might be prepared by recent headlines to take the picture seriously. It therefore comes as a shock when the customer finds himself sniggering through scene after scene, not only at Karl Malden, who gives a funny and often touching performance as a master sergeant, but also at some of the most extravagant recruiting promises that have been made since...