Word: cunningham
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...John Philip Cunningham, chairman of the executive committee. Cunningham & Walsh...
...CUNNINGHAM: The Voice of Conscience
JOHN PHILIP CUNNINGHAM, 65, is the debonair Don Quixote of advertising. As executive committee chairman of Cunningham & Walsh (1961 billings: $48.5 million), he publicly lambastes the vulgar sell ("When we load the television screen with arrows running around people's stomachs, we are boring the public") and the oversell ("When we plaster five different commercial messages right after one another at station-break time, we are boring the public"). Harvardman ('19) Cunningham gets away with such blunt talk because admen admire him as one of the great copywriters of all time. Among his notable creations: Chesterfield...
...version which came out of the Senate post office committee this week and which Cunningham supports, belies this argument. It is a straightforward act of censorship, stripped of all provisions that might secure revenue: recipients can get their "propaganda" (at regular rates) only by filling out a government form requesting...
...overwhelming vote by which the House passed the Cunningham amendment makes it unlikely that all restrictions on Communist mail can be stricken from the final bill. The Senate, however, should realize that accepting the bill as it came from committee merely to placate the House would demonstrate a lack of faith in the American people. By passing the bill, the Senate would in effect announce that, given both sides of the story, Americans can not be trusted to support their own system. For self-styled "super-patriots" like Cunningham and his supporters, this would be quite a confession...