Word: admen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some chroniclers, the trend got started a few years ago when Berney Sullivan improved his small neighborhood bar on First Avenue in the '60s, hired young, good-looking bartenders, and soon built up a clientele of airline stewardesses, teachers and secretaries who attracted a crowd of eligible young admen, lawyers and even a few bankers. Soon Sullivan's place became so jammed that he had to charge admission to keep the crowd down. Next was "Friday's," so called because it opened on Friday and the first customer allegedly came in exclaiming "Thank...
Town Cries. The admen did not have the occasion entirely to themselves. Every English town that could claim the remotest connection with either Harold or William beckoned tourists with such quaint attractions as Conquest puppet shows, town-crier contests and dancing on English Channel piers...
...patios, Ozite is spreading to schools, supermarkets, kitchens, and is carpeting yachts gunwale to gunwale. Dyed cardinal red, it was used last year to cover the altar set up in Yankee Stadium for Pope Paul's visit. Hoping that consumers will think up more tasks for the product, admen have settled on a simple slogan: "Use your imagination...
Impatience with job-hunting journalism school graduates comes naturally to many a case-hardened newspaper editor. The suggestion that seasoned journalists go back to school stirs up quite another response. At a time when city hall speaks in the lingo of the sociologist and Madison Avenue admen talk like practicing economists, reporters, too, must learn the skills of the specialist. Most newspapers now welcome the chance to give newsmen classroom time in which they can polish their working knowledge of the professions on which they report. And the opportunities for such off-the-job training are increasing rapidly...
...White Knight. Admen are divided about the tie between sex and sales. One who uses sexy ads is Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel. Norman, according to a probably apocryphal industry story, put some sex into soap advertising with the Ajax White Knight (symbolizing strength and power) after a psychiatrist told him that 90% of housewives would like to supplement their sex lives. "Sex has always been a part of advertising," says Norman, "but it has usually stayed on the fringe. Now we are encouraging our copywriters to talk more openly and liberally about...