Word: adman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of a neglected wife, Skylark tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She's a woman, she's life itself -she makes the grass grow, see? She's a skylark"), its improbable characters and adroit situations, may sound more convincing on the stage than in print. Manhattanites may have a chance to find out next autumn, when ebullient Gertrude Lawrence, who toured...
...confused with Potter D'Orsay Palmer is his less-publicized, well-behaved first cousin, Potter Palmer III, Chicago adman...
...great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...
Died. Barren Gift Collier, 65, philosopher ("Barren Collier says"), hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...
...Carl Crow (400 Million Customers), ex-Far East adman, is no diplomatic historian. The career of Townsend Harris interests him for its suggestion of Gilbert & Sullivan, its overtones of the Pandora Box story...