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...Before last week's concert, Teacher Strickler had a conversation on that possibility, according to Hollywood's Daily Variety: an advertising agency and Margaret were dickering over a radio appearance. Said Mrs. Strickler indignantly: "Don't forget she is the President's daughter." Snapped the adman: "Why do you think I'm offering...
...organized in 1940 by Adman Michael M. Sillerman, who found that "one-third of the nation, 32 million people who live in communities of 50,000 and under, are in a twilight zone that is only partly covered by the four big networks." Sillerman saw a virgin market for national advertising. He moved in to provide the small stations in these areas with a sizable schedule of transcribed shows (including sustainers). With transcriptions, KBS saved its stations the high cost of network wire lines, cut advertising rates to less than half the charges of the wire networks...
...blessing of National Commander Max H. Sorensen, the C.W.V.'s publications committee got busy tapping the "broadest possible sources" for information about Catholics who might be flirting with Communism: they pored over the daily press, dug into reference libraries, kept their ears to the ground for rumors. Explained Adman Douglas Murphey, a leader of the drive: "As members of an institution whose Founder warned, 'Judge not that ye be not judged,' we have no right to question any man's conscience. Are we then defenseless? No, we have also been told, 'He that...
...market took on an official tone. When he asked the customs inspector at the Littoria airport to exchange dollars, the inspector regretted that he could give only the official exchange of 220 lire. But he pointed to a bus driver who would give 500. By haggling in Rome the adman...
...Flat Voice!" Before he even got on the air, the couple of months became seven. When he did, it was by a flounder. An unwary adman, carrying an Allen audition record to the president of a corn products company, took the costly economy of going by Manhattan subway. On the way. the portable record-player got banged up. All the sponsor could hear was Allen's rasp. "Get me that man with the flat voice!" he ordered...