Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accidents this spring-three times as many as last spring. It was the same with the other Japanese sightseeing-bus companies: a total of 51 crashes, 15 deaths, 843 injured. President Hatano's manager did some oriental-style brain-storming and came up with an idea any adman would be glad to put on the train for Westport. The idea: send the bus drivers to a Zen Buddhist temple to cool off with a little meditation...
Married. Robin Douglas-Home, 27, London jazz piano player who turned adman to win the hand of Sweden's willowy Princess Margaretha but reverted to the piano after the Swedish royal family stalled and his father roared that the Swedes were belittling the British Empire; and Sandra Paul, 18, homegrown, high-paid model; in London...
...levels of British society, where money talks, it often betrays its origins. A large group of "expense account" businessmen and admen are beating at the gates. Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most of us have. It's because...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...
...been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...