Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nearly three years of widowhood, Comedienne Portland Hoffa, 54, professionally zany co-player in Allen's Alley with her late husband, radio's raspy Satirist Fred Allen, announced that she would be married this week to an old friend. Adman and sometime Bandleader Joe Rines, 56, in the same actors' chapel where Chorine Hoffa and Vaudevillian Allen were married 32 years ago-St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's West Side...
Bangs & Kwimpers. In Pioneer, Go Home!, ex-Adman and Novelist (The Philadelphians) Richard Powell has constructed an ingratiating fable of tribal continuity in a world of paper power. The vast apparatus of modern bureaucracy can be defeated only by the semiliterate, such as the Kwimpers of Cranberry County, N.J. The Kwimpers, inbred holdouts against every progressive movement since the Revolution (they spoke Elizabethan English until the school system caught up with them), are the most disgraceful family since the Jukes and the Kallikaks went into the sociologists' black books...
Lord of this happy domain is Bold Venture's producer, Cincinnati's Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (runners-up: CBS Films Inc., MCA-TV, Ltd.). Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs...
Anyone buying a new Capitol 45-r.p.m. record titled Green Chri$tma$ can study these and other atrocities at yuletide leisure. Lyricist Stan Freberg is an adman himself, with an executive suite on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and a reputation for the cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never...
...when Novelist Frederic Wakeman sent Adman Victor Norman into the high-salary altitudes of The Hucksters, he let his man enjoy the big, bad money for a while, then shot him down in a barrage of hack-ack. But the new heroes do not come to bad ends. They are drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take...