Word: admen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from charges that the show "set back the education of retarded children by ten years," to complaints about "unpleasant realism." One critic demanded that CBS send a kinescope to New York's Governor Dewey as Exhibit A in an argument for TV censorship. Nor were network executives and admen comforted by the fact that they got as many compliments as brickbats. In the complex world of commercial television, one boo means far more than 100 bravos, because it may represent someone who is so mad he'll refuse to buy the sponsor's product...
Sound-Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBCTV) alternates three comics (Bob Hope, Jerry Lester, Fred Allen) and one dramatic show (Dragnet) each month. So far, Hope has been noisily funny; Lester, noisily unfunny; and Fred Allen still baffled by the new medium. Allen made his usual acid jokes about admen and television, presided over three skits that didn't quite come off, gloomily croaked a singing commercial for Sponsor Chesterfield, but was unable to approach the comedy highs he reached on radio...
...city admen, in their wistful moments, sometimes talk of giving up the chase for cigarette accounts, moving deep into the country, and dividing their time between gentleman farming and "self-expression...
Whenever someone asks him why he switched from advertising to painting, he just says, "Because I like it." It is fellows like Flannery who keep admen feeling wistful...
...children, and owns his own home (75%). He owns twice as many cars as the average American, and makes almost four times as much money (median income: $11,900). After 25 years, the favorite profession is the law (14%); the next is teaching (8%). Teachers make the least money; admen and manufacturers (2% and 9% respectively) make the most. There are men in the class who can do almost anything, says the class report, except "dig ditches, run an elevator, operate a lathe . . . repair a television set, press clothes, cobble a worn pair of shoes, or hoe the corn...