Word: adman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early days of the New Frontier. Chester Bowles was a conspicuous and important man-Under Secretary of State and an insider in major White House foreign policy decisions. But after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, ex-Adman Bowles aroused Kennedy's anger by telling newsmen that he had disagreed with the invasion plans. For that mixture of indiscretion and disloyalty. Kennedy dropped Bowles from his No. 2 post in the State Department and gave him a new job that was long on title-the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs...
...play some." The Sorta 40s play for dances, and turn their fees over to charity-as does another Atlanta outfit called The Seventeen, which includes three architects, a doctor, an investment counselor, the plant manager for a box factory, an engineer, a lumber company vice president and an adman...
...years ago, when they began acting as a husband-wife team in their own productions of Mr. Adams and Eve for CBS. some Madison Avenue oracle told them that it would be unsuccessful because they "would not be identified with the next-door neighbors." The Duffs looked the adman over and told him, in effect, that it was all right, since they would not particularly care to be identified with their next-door neighbors...
Died. Otto Harbach, 89, courtly dean of U.S. librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund...
...night a couple of years ago, when the candy-butcher hero of Gypsy appeared on stage, a man in the audience said to the adman sitting next to him: "Hey, you're missing the boat here. That guy ought to be a Butterfinger salesman." Since the first man was sales director of the company that makes Butterfingers, the adman was on the phone next morning to Warner Bros, offering to spend $3,000,000 on a promotional campaign if Warner would plug Butterfingers in the movie version of Gypsy. Now, in the wide-screen Gypsy, Candy Salesman Karl Maiden...