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...became an instructor in public speaking and business arithmetic at Sam Houston High in Houston the next month. Business Student James Sager recalls that Lyndon "could put a column of ten figures on the board and by the time he got to the bottom he'd have added them all up in his head." He fascinated his speech classes with his personal, pointed anecdotes, loved to throw out a single word and demand that his students ad-lib a speech about it. Once the word "string" stumped the class-but Lyndon promptly talked 15 minutes on the topic. Then...
Throughout Asia, admen take far more liberties with sex than their Western colleagues would dare. They run explicit commercials for aphrodisiacs and ads for contraceptives, use blatant virility symbols and vivid mammary illustrations, send out song-and-dance troupes singing suggestive ad messages. The new controversy over this emphasis on sex says something significant about the young and rapidly growing Asian ad business. After copying Western ads for years, Asian admen are now developing their own distinctly flamboyant styles. They are also finding new prosperity-and problems in the rising consumer economies of Southeast Asia...
...members of his special , the report recommended that advisors be drawn from the Bureau of Study Counsel, teaching fellows, seniors in the College, and the recent staff of Freshmen advisors. smiliarity with different fields of and experience in dealing students' study problems were as criteria for choosing the ad...
...much as 28 pounds in 28 days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent product. The decision could result in fines and imprisonment for Drug Research's president and fines against the ad agency on 41 separate counts...
Kastor, Hilton protested that the decision "thrusts upon advertising agencies new and costly responsibilities," announced that it would appeal the verdict. Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel Inc., spoke for many admen when he said that ad agencies "don't consider our chore to be policemen" over their clients' claims. Norman also said, however, that "there is no defense for this kind of advertising," added that it "is simply not true" that most clients want to deceive the public...