Word: adman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What does Bowles have? The answer of his partisans: something for everybody. Businessmen can remember him as a whiz-bang adman; as co-founder of Benton & Bowles (with Connecticut's onetime Democratic Senator William Benton). he became wealthy by 40, then moved into politics, won a term (1949-51) as Governor of Connecticut. Many veterans of the clerical army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding...
...years ago, high-domed U.S. thinkers liked to blame the nation's cultural deficiencies on conformity. Last week Adman Charles H. Brower, president of Manhattan's giant Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, trotted out another villain: "mediocrity." Speaking at a big advertising powwow in Florida, Brower declared that a lack of "greatness" is holding up national progress. He told his competitors: "Advertising in a climate of greatness will work harder. Fewer people will be annoyed by advertising . . . It will cease to be the whipping boy for every uninformed meathead and misinformed egghead and unsuccessful sorehead...
Harry E. Hanners, 40, is a onetime Manhattan adman who suffered a spinal disease for five years. A painkilling drug led to his addiction and a six-month sentence in Long Island's Nassau County Jail...
...copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could not see the need for shaving under water. No one heard him. They had all left for Florida...
...marks the spot of Alexander King. He is an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories...