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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cupid's Quiver is sold in pastel packaging from cosmetics counters instead of drug shelves. It was introduced nationally in August, and sales in the first two months climbed to $250,000-a total that would please any marketer of a new drug or cosmetic. It has had little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

It Began Underground. The product's prospects were further heightened last month when Tawn Limited, a subsidiary of McKesson Laboratories, the giant drug wholesaler, bought the production and distribution rights. Until then, Cupid's Quiver was produced by Joseph Laboratories in Los Angeles, a tiny, one-product firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

To gain a wider market, Socher and Meyerhoff interested Marsteller in handling the advertising account. Vice President Robert Carpenter, who until then had worked on campaigns for such items as laundry products and hand tools, recalls that his immediate reaction to the Cupid's Quiver assignment was "total shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Tawn's immediate strategy is to build the product's image by selling it through as many prestige outlets as possible and then move it heavily into drugstores. The only loser in this unlikely success story is Marsteller. Tawn executives last week switched the $500,000 account to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Unlikeliest Product | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The film adaptation of Hello, Dolly! matches Herman's contribution. Michael Crawford playing the young clerk, Cornelius Hackl, self-consciously recalls Stan Laurel. As Horace Vandergelder, the richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echolalia | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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