Word: admen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Endorsers. To back his plan, he brought along enough distinguished endorsers to make other admen ulcerous with envy. David Sarnoff, board chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, thought the Iron Curtain countries could be ringed with U.S. transmitters at a cost of about $200 million. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, onetime U.S. ambassador to Moscow, guaranteed that Russian satellites would be a "most fertile field," with some 4,000,000 Soviet radios also within reach, and an average of seven listeners to each set. Russia's frenzied efforts to jam Voice of America broadcasts, he added, were proof...
Every chance he gets, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer tries to persuade the Administration to take the heat off business. Last week, Charlie Sawyer told nearly 700 admen at White Sulphur Springs that they could help the cooling-off process. The way to do it, said the Secretary of Commerce, was for business to win back the political power which it has lost...
...brow, the shrug of simulated incomprehension. His personality has elements of other U.S. entertainers who have won a peculiarly affectionate place in American hearts. Like Will Rogers, Godfrey is the embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby, he blends urbanity with the slippered ease of a small-town family man. Like George M. Cohan, he is a Yankee Doodle flag waver...
...Salesman. Whatever he represents to his vast audience, Godfrey is a mile-high stack of blue chips to CBS, to his sponsors and to their advertising agencies. Though admen may wince at a typical Godfrey commercial (plugging a shampoo made of eggs and milk, he cracked: "And if your hair is clean, it makes a fine omelet"), they admit he makes products move...