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Barton Pinnacle was indicated in the will of Dr. William Eleazer Barton, Lincoln authority, father of Adman Bruce Barton, as the name which he wished given to a Kentucky mountain bequeathed by him to his alma mater Berea College...
...idea for just such a testimonial to President Hoover was recently submitted by one Harold S. Ellms, then identified with Street & Finney advertising agency, to TIME and also to Review of Reviews. Both rejected it. Editor Doubleday had nothing to say of Adman Ellms. Said he: "It does not matter whose idea it was. It's entirely our own show...
...acre ranch at Carrizozo, N. Mex. There to ride horseback, there also to work on future advertising layouts in his cinemagnificent home which contains marble floors and doors transplanted from Chicago's oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice...
...study retail merchandising methods and dealer reaction to window-displays; especially in the drug business. He became associated with Bristol-Myers the following year as secretary and advertising manager, was made a vice president in 1928. Bristol-Myers is a subsidiary of Drug, Inc., and among the products which Adman Bristol tells the world about are Ipana Tooth Paste, Sal Hepatica, Ingram's Shaving Cream...
...able adman, Sir Charles describes himself in the latest British Who's Who thus: "Freeman of the City of London; organized the first battalion of Volunteers at outbreak of war; keenly interested in all questions affecting Labour: lectures on practical lines of the problem between Capital and Labour; advocate for better living conditions for the workers, better paying and training for teachers, and happier child-life among the masses...