Word: admen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer"). He became a sportwriter, later switched to advertising ("Seeing all that dough, I thought of poor editorial me. I decided it was the admen who got the gravy...
What's wrong with U.S. advertising? Most admen have turned a stony ear to outsiders who have grumbled that ads were too extreme, inane and misleading. But in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, admen squirmed as an insider, in the simplified and exaggerated terms of an eye-catching ad, told them off. Said Miss Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising director of Gimbels: advertising stinks...
...Toil, Trouble, Disease. In even plainer copywriting words she told the admen...
...Manhattan admen have a corner on the national advertising that goes to college magazines. To Harvardmen Madison Sayles and W. B. Bradbury the most depressing thing about their business is not the tired jokes they encounter among their ads. It is the visits of shameless radio gag writers who buy up old copies as a source of swipeable humor...
Patterson had left behind him a high-ranking team of admen, business managers and circulation wizards. But he took with him the unique editorial talents that had made his paper the most successful and the most disliked tabloid in the country. Keeping its diverse, perverse personality alive was now squarely up to Clarke...