Word: adman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revive this spirit. Says U.C.L.A. Sociology Professor Edward C. McDonagh: "Tipping is 'out of season' in our society, but few of us have become aware of it. Why give a gratuity to someone who has Blue Cross coverage?" And in Boston a few years ago, an adman established "Tippers Anonymous," which sells members a $1 book of 30 yellow slips. On each is printed a message explaining that Tippers Anonymous is "dedicated to improving service and restoring its reward." The tipper checks off the grade of service (excellent, good, fair, poor) and leaves the slip for the waiter...
...polo field. Uihlein also happens to be president of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., but he is better known for his polo playing than for his efforts in behalf of the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Between periods at a game in New York a few seasons ago, an adman who liked the way Uihlein played approached him to ask: "Would you like to give a testimonial for Blatz...
...pulled Fidel Castro's beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released...
...across the zoning line in his car. But Justina's death is merely the incident that fires the smoldering discontent of a man whose daily stint is to commute to the city and turn out TV commercials. Cheever is almost surely speaking for himself when his frustrated adman says: "There are some Americans who, although their fathers emigrated from the Old World three centuries ago, never seem to have quite completed the voyage, and I am one of these...
...whose business is creating public images, often has a hard time keeping its own shiny. Admen have learned to put up with image-smashing by professors, but what really hurts is when one of their own hacks away at the pedestal. Last week, on a Washington television program, ex-Adman (cofounder of the high-powered agency, Benton & Bowles, Inc.), ex-Bureaucrat (OPA price administrator), ex-Governor (of Connecticut), ex-Ambassador (to India), ex-Congressman and now Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles committed the Madison Avenue equivalent of treason: he dismissed his advertising career as a youthful mistake...