Word: adman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group is the best commercial-singing ensemble largely because of what an adman calls "the cutting edge of Jamie's voice." All four singers deliver their words with the sort of enunciation that makes poets out of admen. "Their words seem to be coming from a foot outside of their mouths in a kind of bas-relief," says one such poet...
Married. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, 40, Manhattan model, ex-wife of the Marquess of Milford Haven; and James Busch Orthwein, 40, St. Louis adman, great-grandson of the original Gussie (Budweiser) Busch; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Good Neighbor Sam. "We're good clean family men here at Nurdlinger Farms," declares Milk Merchant Edward G. Robinson. "I don't want my account handled by bawds and lechers and libertines." Enter Jack Lemmon, a neat, courteous, helpful young adman who resides in suburban San Francisco with two children, one dreadfully adorable duck, and his leggy All-American wife (Dorothy Provine). Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is. The girl next door (Romy Schneider) cannot collect...
...Jack Valenti, 42, an energetic former Houston adman, serves the personal side of the President, arranges his appointments, works out his daily schedule, frets about his public image, dogs Johnson wherever he goes. Valenti, says Johnson, "is the only man who knows everything that goes on in the White House...
...Valenti met Johnson for the first time at a Democratic coffee party. It was hero worship at first sight for the bouncy adman. As a sideline, Valenti was writing a weekly column for the Houston Post, and no sooner had he met Lyndon than he loosed a gushing tribute titled "The Great Persuader." Wrote Valenti of Johnson...