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...News, paper of Chicago's Evening-Colonel (Frank Knox), last week published a photostat of a reply written by Chicago's Morning-Colonel (R. R. McCormick of the Tribune) to a letter from Chicago Adman J. H. Sawyer...
...Young Fuoss, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has for two years headed Post promotion and publicity. He is an advertising man, a protégé of Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
...though their subjects had been removed from newly opened graves, nobody gave him commissions. So Painter Albright painted himself. One of his self-portraits, an imaginative picture of a dour, wrinkled man sitting by a table with a still-life arrangement on it, was bought by Chicago's Adman Earle Ludgin, most enthusiastic individual Albright collector...
...Missing Heir? program (sponsored by Ironized Yeast and created by Lawyer James Waters and Adman Alfred Shebel), which for nearly two years has been dramatizing each week over CBS true tales of estranged souls whose deaths -and estates-were unknown to their presumptive heirs, last week turned up its luckiest missing heir so far: a quiet, 40-year-old, much-buffeted Chicagoan named Rawlins Phillips. His inheritance...