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About six weeks ago American Airlines got a new advertising agency-Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Shortly afterward there began to appear in newspapers and magazines large advertisements, decorated with a photograph of an exuberant girl in a bathing suit and captioned rhetorically: Is there a Low-Level Airway through Southern Sunshine to California? "Fortunately" said the advertisement, "the answer...
Dinner guests at the Chicago home of Hill Blackett, Public Relations Director for the Republican National Committee during the 1936 campaign, were Alfred Mossman Landon and Colonel Frank Knox. Said Mr. Landon, "We hardly had a chance to get acquainted during the campaign. We were too busy...
...Charles Nielsen, Chicago market researcher, went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each. W. J. Cameron of the Ford program won third radio medal...
...Hill Blackett, another GOPressagent in Chicago, had spent six weeks digging up phonograph records of Presidential broadcasts to recall to listeners, in full verisimilitude of tone and voice, Franklin Roosevelt's promises in times past. Mean time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement...
...bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...