Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken traffic light that shows both red and green, U.S. banks are glutted with savings, while their loan departments report a sharp fall-off in new business. Last week President Charles H. Brower of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne stepped into the money jam, whistled up an adman's notion of creating motion. Advertising has the job of awakening desire, said hard-selling Charlie Brower to an American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. His advice: let bankers quickly borrow some advertising techniques...
Concluded Adman Brower: "If we are to break the present economic log jam, you installment-credit bankers and we in advertising must do it by working together.'' Bankers should disregard the idea that the U.S. consumer is being worked on by "hidden persuaders" and needs protection from admen. That, said Brower, is rubbish. "I don't think the so-called 'hidden persuaders' are able to persuade him to do much of anything that he doesn't already want to do anyway...
...lure readers. Said he: "A picture of a man standing on his head would get attention, but the reader would feel tricked by the gimmick-unless, of course, we were trying to sell a gadget to keep change in his pocket." He got a reputation for being an adman's adman, for putting small accounts on a level with big ones. He made an obscure New York bread one of the city's best known with ads showing nibbled slices and the message, "New York is eating it up." Among the agency's other memorable copy...
...plaintiff, in a Los Angeles court, called for the dissolution of Lewislor Films, Inc., producer of NBC-TV's Loretta Young Show, charged company bosses with "dishonesty, mismanagement and unfairness." The plaintiff: Adman Tom Lewis, 55; codefendant: the company president, Cinemactress Loretta Young, Lewis' wife for almost 18 years. Said Lewis: "It has no personal implications." Said Actress Young: "No comment...
Beetle-browed Leo Burnett, 66, chairman of Chicago's Leo Burnett Co. Inc., is a fast-moving adman who looks and acts much younger than his age. In 22 years he has expanded his agency billings from $1,000,000 to $80 million, captured the No. ID spot in domestic billing among U.S. agencies...