Word: admen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rectangular envelope weighing over two pounds plunked down upon the desks of 10,000 news and admen throughout the land last week. Out of it came the current issue of Editor & Publisher. It was no 50-page regular weekly issue of the Press's No. 1 tradepaper but a glittering, gilt-coated volume of 320 pages. The legend on the cover told the story: GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER-1884-1934. Backward through a series of competitors which it had absorbed during half a century, Editor & Publisher traced its origin to a 12-page sheetlet called The Journalist...
...Manhattan, J. Robert Stout, 55, president of the International Benjamin Franklin Society, founder of Educational Thrift Service and onetime president of the New York Rotary Club, asked a dozen assorted bankers, psychologists, admen and businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...
...horrid hint of "blackjacked" advertising, Broker-Age snorted ridicule, replied that its admen have been expressly enjoined to base their claims strictly on circulation. Also Broker-Age insisted it does not seek to make a profit...
Last week Nat Burns, Googie Allen, General Cigar and their admen, J. Walter Thompson Co., fairly dithered with excitement over a lush harvest of free publicity. It all derived from a neat stunt concerning Gracie Allen's "lodge," incredible and wholly mythical brother in which Columbia Broadcasting System happily cooperated. On every Wednesday night program for nearly a year Gracie has been piping stories of this brother who invented a way of manufacturing pennies for 3?, who printed a newspaper on Cellophane so that when dining in restaurants he could watch his hat & coat, who hurt his leg falling...