Word: adman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his eighth-grade nephew came home and announced that his class had produced three plays in one day, a young Boston adman and magazine publisher named A. S. Burack looked into the matter, found that 1) few good plays were written for children, 2) few schools could pay commercial royalties (averaging $5 a performance) for professional plays, 3) consequently most schools had to produce old chestnuts or the amateurish writings of pedagogues...
...News, paper of Chicago's Evening-Colonel (Frank Knox), last week published a photostat of a reply written by Chicago's Morning-Colonel (R. R. McCormick of the Tribune) to a letter from Chicago Adman J. H. Sawyer...
...Young Fuoss, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has for two years headed Post promotion and publicity. He is an advertising man, a protégé of Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
...though their subjects had been removed from newly opened graves, nobody gave him commissions. So Painter Albright painted himself. One of his self-portraits, an imaginative picture of a dour, wrinkled man sitting by a table with a still-life arrangement on it, was bought by Chicago's Adman Earle Ludgin, most enthusiastic individual Albright collector...