Word: adman
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...play some." The Sorta 40s play for dances, and turn their fees over to charity-as does another Atlanta outfit called The Seventeen, which includes three architects, a doctor, an investment counselor, the plant manager for a box factory, an engineer, a lumber company vice president and an adman...
...years ago, when they began acting as a husband-wife team in their own productions of Mr. Adams and Eve for CBS. some Madison Avenue oracle told them that it would be unsuccessful because they "would not be identified with the next-door neighbors." The Duffs looked the adman over and told him, in effect, that it was all right, since they would not particularly care to be identified with their next-door neighbors...
Died. Otto Harbach, 89, courtly dean of U.S. librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund...
...night a couple of years ago, when the candy-butcher hero of Gypsy appeared on stage, a man in the audience said to the adman sitting next to him: "Hey, you're missing the boat here. That guy ought to be a Butterfinger salesman." Since the first man was sales director of the company that makes Butterfingers, the adman was on the phone next morning to Warner Bros, offering to spend $3,000,000 on a promotional campaign if Warner would plug Butterfingers in the movie version of Gypsy. Now, in the wide-screen Gypsy, Candy Salesman Karl Maiden...
Virginia-born Sam Kootz, who now has Hans Hofmann, was also an early champion of nonobjective art. A onetime lawyer and then adman, he was writing about American art as far back as 1930, became convinced that the wave of the future in art lay in the U.S. and that the U.S. should start paying attention. And so, in 1945 he signed up Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes, packed them off to Florida to paint. Later, Adolph Gottlieb and Sculptor David Hare joined the list. Kootz refused to take Pollock, and when he began adding such foreign names as Soulages...