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Word: adman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more cynical observers think that Godfrey's greatest audience bait is the faintly smutty double meaning. "Godfrey can do more with the lift of an eyebrow than De Maupassant could with a volume," says one adman. "Whenever he ad-libs he talks himself right into the bathroom." Such scatological shockers as the miniature outhouse he used as a TV prop invariably explode titillated giggles in his studio and television audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Dorothy (Road to Morocco) Lamour was off to Houston with her husband, Adman Bill Howard, for a personal-appearance date, after posing for a picture in Hollywood with her three-month-old son, Richard Thomson Howard. Said Dotty of the baby and his older brother, John, 4: "Now that I have two boys I can do my own 'Road' pictures at home. That house, believe me, is as crazy as a 'Road' picture with the two kids yelling at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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