Word: adman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents that a committee of responsible citizens be set up to make recommendations for TV reform. The response of NBC's Robert Sarnoff and CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton were made public last week. NBC took up the adman's idea with enthusiasm, expanded it into an elaborate proposal (complete with preamble) as neatly put up as a packet...
With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that "TV wins a daily vote of confidence in 45 million American homes," and rejected "grandiose schemes for television's Utopia." Unfortunately, NBC has so far brought forth no notable schemes, Utopian or otherwise, seems to be spending much of its brainpower working over the pity...
North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story...
North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story...
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...