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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Spearhead. The Cudahy-to-Grant deal reveals Will Grant's secret. Last year he decided that Cudahy's lush Old Dutch Cleanser business (handled by Blackett-Sample-Hummert) was fair game. He called in all his employes for a session on what was good or bad about Old Dutch-and other-cleansers. Then he got some of his research staff (the mail-room girls look like Powers models) licensed to sell Dutch Cleanser from door to door, taking notes while housewives scrubbed. He set others to scrubbing every bathtub in the 450-room Knickerbocker Hotel, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Heretic in the House | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Five mornings a week (over the Blue Network) for the duration, Chaplain Jim is scheduled to bring the everyday problems of Army men home to their mothers, wives and sweethearts. A 15-minute sustaining show, it is being written and produced by Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., who run the biggest soap-opera factory in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Radio: Service Soap Opera | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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