Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain shows. Thus, on Philip Morris' I Love Lucy or the Camel News Caravan no one is ever referred to as "lucky." And on Lucky Strike shows there is never any mention of camels or caravans, of hoards of old gold, or of chesterfield sofas or overcoats. An adman for Chesterfield recently rewrote the lyrics of the show tune, Blue Room, for Singer Perry Como. The offending line read: "I can smoke my pipe away...
...difficult to single one person out of this first-rate cast, but if anyone deserves an especial credit, it is Bob Schwarz, who, besides contributing to the lyrics, played Maximilian Feek, the adman himself, with gusto, humor, and even subtlety when it was needed. Juggling the whims of ball-bearing manufacturer S.J. (does in dry dead-pan by Walter Littell) with the extra-curricular passions of Electra, his brassy mistress, played by Hugh Fortmiller, Feek is ulcered into finding a new advertising glmmick to sell ball-bearings. With the help of vice-presidents Arbuthuot, Moriarity, and Carmichel (Ed Bursk, Stove...
Westinghouse veteran and a brilliant mechanical engineer (Alabama Polytechnic, '22) with a long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products, run by ex-Adman John Meek McKibben, 51. Price is the overseer who keeps the top echelon pulling together, holds it responsible for meeting goals. All of them sit in on the overall management committee, which determines how high Westinghouse should set its sights for expansion...
...sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required to parade up & down in front...
...Faraway Farm near Winston-Salem, N.C., M. W. Larry Domino 5, an uncle of Champion Larry Domino 12th. was also in the news. Owner Donald A. (for nothing) Leach, a former adman now in the breeding business, had bought him in 1951 for "more than $10,000 and less than $25,000," and trucked him from Texas to North Carolina. But Larry began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded...