Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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S.S.C.&B. was the result of the biggest exodus in recent advertising history: four vice presidents walked out of Ruthrauff & Ryan all at once to start their own agency. Close on their heels went ten other key men and three fat R.&R. accounts. Raymond F. Sullivan, 48, chairman of R.&R.'s plans board, took along the $1.5 million-a-year Noxzema Chemical Co. account, which he had handled for more than 20 years, and the $500,000-a-year billings of Smith Bros. John P. Cohane, 34, brought along the $1.5 million business of the drug division...
Lessons Learned. Admen gossiped that the exodus was at least partly the result of personal differences between those who quit and R.&R.'s President Barry Ryan, who inherited his job from his father, Founder Frederick Behrens Ryan Sr. The founders of S.S.C.&B. denied the rumors, but they promptly adopted a rule against hiring a relative of any member of their new firm...
From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...
Recalling that Harvard is not a co-educational institution, the House Masters recently turned down a Student Council request to have the time of House exodus for women extended by an hour. Neither the masters nor the Council members are dealing with realities: the Masters because they consider official recognition of student social life a heinous step toward co-education, and the Council members because their proposal was hardly an attempt to alleviate the social difficulties caused by the lack of, and the failure to use, University facilities...
...Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...