Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week admen were watching a seven-week-old pup who had just taken a $3.5 million bite out of one of the biggest mastiffs in the business. The aggressive young pup was the Manhattan firm of Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, Inc. Its chief victim: Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., sixth largest ad agency ($32 million a year in accounts...
...Bayles, 35, co-directors of R.&R.'s radio operations. Their fifth partner was the only principal in the new firm who was not an R.&R. man: Robert T. Colwell, 42, top creative man and head of the plans board at J. Walter Thompson, No. 1 U.S. ad agency...
Kahn's success is measured in more than the money the weather houses bring in. Besides the flock of new accounts it has attracted to his revived and thriving ad agency, Kahn gets quantities of hand-knitted scarves, homemade candy, pecans, etc., from satisfied farm customers who are short on cash...
...When told what Frederic Wakeman had said in The Hucksters about the industry's ad-madness, she gasped: "Oh, it just isn't true! Procter & Gamble have always been lovely...
Groucho is first-rate. From his opening lines as a stowaway in a barrel in the hold of the ship, to his concluding monologue announcing a fight from the ceiling of a barn, he works furiously every minute. Most of his action is ad-lib, and his Perelmanesque lines are sharp. Commenting on a remark by someone, he says: "Gee, I wish I'd said that. Everyone's repeating it around the club these days...