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Largely the creation of Interlocutor Johnson, a onetime adman, Vox Pop got under way over station KTRH in Houston, Tex. during Franklin Roosevelt's first Presidential campaign. In its early career, Vox Pop was beset by drunks and loquacious looneys. Nowadays the show is conducted with propriety in Rotary Clubs and similar establishments. Its schedule calls for attendance at private parties and national events of all descriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vox Pop | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...half-hearted supporter of the President, disliked by New Dealers, Connecticut's Senator Francis T. Maloney nevertheless coattailed in past a smart Republican adman and schoolmaster, 43-year-old Paul Lincoln Cornell. Delaware elected (6-5) an even more conservative Democrat: James Miller Tunnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: New Houses | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Concocted by Hollywood Adman Raymond R. Morgan, What's On Your Mind? includes a quiz, designed to cut down long-winded participants, musical interludes, and occasional personal requests. A 67-year-old U. S. Army veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, who claimed that he had been court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the Army on charges of having peddled illegally 90? worth of chocolate bars, broadcast, "All I want is for some of the fellows who were with me in Peking in 1900 to come forward and help me clear my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What's On Your Mind? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Biggest beneficiary of both B. & B.'s losses was the same: tall, blond, mild Theodore Lewis Bates, B. & B. vice president (until he leaves next month). After he left Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne to join B. & B. in 1935, the Continental account followed him. Last January Adman Bates also took over the Colgate account. Last week there were changes at CPP, of which those at B. & B. were an echo. Advertising Director Roy Peet, with whom Bates worked, moved upstairs to be assistant to President Edward Herman Little. And Adman Bates was given the option of forming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Accounts Moved | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Hudson comes out with "Lucite" lens (light-bending) on the instrument panels. Also pushed is "Symphonic Styling," adman's way of saying outside colors blend with inside colors. Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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