Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even his own backers figured that Lodge stood no more than a 50-50 chance against his Democratic opponent, incumbent Governor Chester Bliss Bowles, the New Dealing adman. Lodge would need all the support he could get; Bradley, alone of the losers, did not offer...
...Senate seat now warmed by Adman Bill Benton (Bowles's old partner in Benton & Bowles) looked a little more inviting. Mitchell put his influence behind a hearty, handsome Wall Street banker named Prescott Bush,-who played first base at Yale (1915-17), likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached...
...idea of a Baltimore adman, Lucky Number is based on a five-to-nine-digit master number which listeners must match up with the numbers on their Social Security cards, drivers' licenses or auto permits. By last week so many were scrambling for the $100 prizes that one Washington station was pumping out lucky numbers twelve times a day, and professional listeners were already popping up offering to keep tabs for anyone who was too busy to listen himself. The only check in sight seemed to be the Supreme Court, which is expected to hand down its decision...
...request of ex-Law Partner Louis S. Levy, Hahn arranged a $250,000 loan for Levy from Adman Albert D. Lasker, president of Lord & Thomas, which had American's account. When it came out, in 1939, that the loan had found its way to Federal Judge Martin T. Manton, who had decided a stockholder's suit in Hill's favor, Manton was convicted of bribery and Levy was disbarred. The court exonerated Hahn, saying he had been guilty only of "poor judgment" (TIME...
Once a history teacher at Stanford and later at Harvard, Adman Lynd decided that he had solved the mystery after taking a closer look at high-school education from his chair on the school board in Sharon, a small town near Boston. Last week, in the Atlantic Monthly, he described the sort of academic "quackery" he found in control of U.S. public schools...