Word: advts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gimbel advt. of last week: "Albie Booth, sensational football player, will be in our Sporting Goods Department all evening. Albie will demonstrate and autograph 'Touchdown,' the new football game...
...annually. He made the notions department appeal to "firemen, housewives, bachelors and babies." Evening wraps were offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME." His was the direction, but about-townish writers like Margaret Fishback turned out the copy. A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling lustily for "hand-knit woolies." Caption: "NATURE IN THE ROAR...
...Harvard. There is no truth to the story that he bluffed his way into his Macy job without advertising experience. Adman Collins had spiced up the copy of a small Boston department store, spent one year in a Cleveland advertising agency before he answered Macy's want advt. The names of his future clients he keeps secret, but when asked whether he thought his prospects good, Adman Collins snapped: "If they weren't good, you don't think I would throw up a $70,000-a-year...
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...cross, "Inter-nationalis Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write...