Word: adman
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Elected. Guy C. Smith, Chicago adman; to be president of the Association of National Advertisers; at their 19th annual convention, Atlantic City...
Died. James Walter Thompson, 81, famed Manhattan adman; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry P. Williams, 69, Chicago adman, whose firm (Williams & Cunnyngham) produced famed Hart, Schaffner & Marx blazonry; after a long illness; in Evanston...
This and much more Adman Bruce Barton (The "Nobody Knows" Series) said in an interview printed last week by the New York Telegram. Theoretically, he was answering a similar interview with Publisher H. L. Mencken, whom he good-naturedly called "an actor . . . bad influence on young people ... a grand court jester ... a sad voice singing 'Sweet Adeline' in the speakeasies." Pungent paragraphs from Mr. Barton's interview follow...