Word: admen
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...year), kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America. Spectacled, stocky John Burns not only runs the biggest U.S. entertainment company, but a sprawling complex that is intimately involved in a dozen major fields, from space vehicles to atomic energy, contains all the myriad problems unique to scientists and scenarists, artists and admen...
Editor Williamson foresees the time when the magazine will become an Eskimo business venture, with Eskimo publishers, subscription solicitors and admen. At present, that is only piyumagiamik, a dream...
...Guineas A Head. In the upper levels of British society, where money talks, it often betrays its origins. A large group of "expense account" businessmen and admen are beating at the gates. Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most...
...Chris-Craftsmen feel that the fine old seagoing word "head" smacks too much of hair on the chest and tattooed muscles; the company's admen are looking for a word that nicely defines the head's function at the same time that it denotes a commodious enclosure...
What everybody forgot was the helpfulness of adult admen, who did their bit for both sides, livened up the campaign by plastering Sweden with ads slickly arguing that a shorter week would mean "more homework and shorter holidays." Result: some 328,000 student voters (90% of the "electorate") voted for a six-day week by nearly three to one. This week Swedish officials are pondering their own problem in democracy: how to go ahead and introduce the five-day week without disillusioning the kids...