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...Pulitzer Prizewinner Henry Fowles Pringle (OWI's No. 1 writer), 13 other top writers and publishers. In came smooth, dapper, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System vice president William Bennett Lewis (Assistant Director), smooth, dapper, onetime Coca-Cola admanager Price Gilbert (Acting Chief of Graphics), a beauteous bevy of other admen and promotion specialists...
...mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
Pontiac, whatever admen can or cannot say, is a flashy-looking car. Sweeping G.M. fenders make it look much longer than last year's jobs. Other new Pontiac features: thickset grilles, two electric motors which automatically raise and lower the tops of convertibles. All models available with either six or eight cylinders...
Maxon learned the tricks of direct-mail copy with a small Detroit advertising agency before he started his own. His unaffected down-to-earth approach charmed manufacturers accustomed to the polished patter of big-city admen. When an exasperated Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive asked him what he would do first if he got the account, Maxon replied: "First thing I'd do would be to thank you profusely. Then I'd rush outside, throw my hat in the air and yell. Beyond that I haven't any idea...
...early 19303 a minor revolution occurred in the U. S. The Communist Party, having failed for years "to capture the masses," much to its own surprise "captured the intelligentsia." Almost overnight, writers, admen, publishers, newshawks, college professors, engineers, lawyers, heiresses, cinemactresses, vaudevillians began to call each other comrade and urge their Negro maids to attend Communist rallies on their nights off. This triumph brought special inconveniences in its train. Workers asked few questions. But the intelligentsia were the most inquisitive and prying converts the Marxists had ever made: they were in the habit of reading about every new ism they...