Word: adman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sideline, adman Swaffield referees Ivy League football games, and it was he who arbitrated last year's Dartmouth and Princeton debacles. Swaffield is currently advertising manager for the Hood Rubber Company, where he has worked for 25 years...
Many U.S. radio listeners are dissatisfied with the programs that commercial radio gives them, but don't like the idea of Government-controlled broadcasting either. In recent years a group of well-fixed pioneers (among them: Adman-Diplomat William B. Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, Educator Robert M. Hutchins) have been proposing another alternative: Subscription Radio (TIME...
Success in burglary, as in other fields of human endeavor, depends on keen awareness of changing values. In London's Mayfair last week, a promising burglar broke into the apartment of Adman Patrick Dolan and took...
...Lasker Awards in public health were set up only last year by former Chicago Adman Albert D. Lasker and his wife Mary. Already they are regarded as a top honor in U.S. medicine. Awarded annually by the American Public Health Association, the prizes are intended to stimulate efforts for mass lifesaving. They are given to medical scientists or administrators who have contributed most toward fighting the major fatal diseases. Individual winners get $1,000 and a gold statuette of the Winged Victory-a kind of medical Oscar...
Tycoon Robert Ralph Young, who takes as much pleasure in writing his own advertisements as in gobbling up more trackage, got a blow last week where it hurt. A Manhattan adman named Lawrence Fertig, who writes once a week for the New York World-Telegram financial page, criticized Bob Young's latest ad ("Let's Wake Up Rip Van Winkle...