Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Jeff Donnell, 37, actress who is giving up her job as Comedian George Gobel's TV wife; and Manhattan adman John Bricker II, 39; he for the second time, she for the third (her second: Actor Aldo Ray); in Van Nuys, Calif...
Noon soon began to sound like a Madison Avenue adman who has made a suggestion that is unpopular with the sponsor. In effect, he said, federation was just an idea he had tossed on the table to see if it would get up and dance. He did not intend an immediate political union; all he wanted was close military cooperation and the removal of custom barriers and passport restrictions...
...taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town to lead the Omaha Symphony Orchestra through a 6½-minute singing commercial of his own composition...
Died. Martin L. Straus II, 61, adman and business tycoon, chairman (1940-49) of Eversharp, Inc., who started plugging his pens and pencils in 1940 on radio's quiz show Take It or Leave It, began a seemingly unstoppable inflation when he stunned incredulous listeners by presenting a game in which Eversharp contestants could supply progressively difficult answers and work their way toward an extravagant "$64 question"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...success of the campaigns is amply demonstrated by the fact that grocery sales are still soaring. Last week the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. reported record sales and profits for the seventh year in a row. As one West Coast adman says, "Mrs. America doesn't just buy what she needs; she buys what she wants...