Word: admen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
...industries in which the general public has never had a real chance to invest is the $12 billion-a-year advertising business. Last week admen from coast to coast were chattering over the news that a Manhattan agency had broken the pattern by asking...
Questions & Gyrations. Despite these obvious advantages, most admen are still skeptical of public ownership. Their big fear is that it might undermine the confidential relationship between an agency and its clients. "I wouldn't want to be part of an agency that owed its primary obligation to stockholders," says Fairfax Cone, executive committee chairman of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding. Adds Ernest Jones, president of Detroit's MacManus, John & Adams: "If there were outside stockholders, they would have the right to ask such questions as 'What is the contemplated Pontiac budget for next year?' Well...
...city seems to bring together likes: people united by their specialized work (the clusters of intellectuals around the city campuses, the scientists, the editors, the admen, the garment workers) or by their special interests at play (the bowlers, the painters, the weekend sailors). It is they who supply the metropolitan vitality. Unhappily, the part of the metropolis that advertises itself most blatantly to the passing tourist points to the jazz joints on Rush Street or the celebrity seekers in the Peppermint Lounge. Luckily for civilization, the flint of genius strikes its sparks generously on the steel of the city. Artists...
...admen condemn the FTC out of hand. Says Fairfax Cone, chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding: "The industry cannot police itself; it never could. The FTC is reaching for more authority to do what it is supposed to do." Even blunter is Dr. Max Geller, president of New York's Weiss & Geller agency, who says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure...