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...Publications Bureau, headed by ex-Associated Pressman Ed Stanley. They are the work of such once highly paid talents as Artist-Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans, Scenarist Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, etc.), Novelist Jerome (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) Weidmann, Author Humphrey Cobb (Paths of Glory), Adman Ted Patrick and others...
Tall, breezy Carl Wakefield, San Francisco adman, sat down fuming and circularized Vice Admiral John Greenslade, Lieut. General John L. De Witt and Coast Guard Commander Roderick Patch: "Fifty-thousand Japanese parachutists could have landed on San Pablo Bay on that night, and a clear night it was, without detection...
Uniformed soldiers, tanks and bombers, rather than toothsome girlish smiles, will sell this year's quota of cigarets and soup to the U.S. public. Last week the most important barometer of U.S. advertising art indicated that the long reign of the pretty girl, the adman's most unfailing little helper, was temporarily on the decline. That barometer was the annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, year's biggest event in advertising...
Last week's slim audience didn't bother Eddie Condon. Nor did it discourage his backer, bespectacled Ernest Anderson, onetime adman and CBS executive. For next season he has arranged eleven biweekly Town Hall jazz concerts for Eddie Condon, with more possibly to come, at the same unseasonal (for jazz) hour as last week...
When his eighth-grade nephew came home and announced that his class had produced three plays in one day, a young Boston adman and magazine publisher named A. S. Burack looked into the matter, found that 1) few good plays were written for children, 2) few schools could pay commercial royalties (averaging $5 a performance) for professional plays, 3) consequently most schools had to produce old chestnuts or the amateurish writings of pedagogues...