Word: client
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trenches to blighty and peace on earth. Even as they panted after Revlon, the most dynamic cosmetic-maker in the U.S., veteran admen gulped their Gibsons nervously at the thought of also taking on Revlon's rambunctious President Charles Revson, 50, the most feared, cheered and jeered advertising client since the late George Washington Hill of American Tobacco fearlessly sent Lucky Strike green...
...still has dirty fingernails, says freely and even admiringly: "Charlie is a genius. He is also a bombastic, terribly hardworking, frantic guy who just chews people .up. Unless you can bully him when he's wrong, you're through." McCarthy wonderingly describes an agency meeting with Client Revson: "It started in the afternoon. Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night." A perfectionist, Revson can talk for hours over the exact shade...
...regarded by many prostitutes as a license: they keep their receipts to show bobbies that they have been run in recently. Said Probation Official Frank Dawtry: "I don't think increasing the penalty is going to have much effect-a girl will merely get more from her client...
...Carriage Factory. For a client, huge (a staff of 900 and more than $350 million in current projects) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill had in Connecticut General's Wilde, 62, a born Yankee who frankly prefers New England colonial, but knows as a good insurance man that "you'd better not invest your money in a carriage factory!" What Wilde decided he wanted was flexibility, high-grade materials for low maintenance, and qualities of beauty and humanity that would attract and hold clerical employees (mostly young women) in labor-short Hartford...
...board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First, I ask the client's telephone number and address. If it's not a good location, that presents a problem right off. Then I want to know how many people in the family, how many children, their ages and sexes, whether it's a one-story or a two-story home...