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Word: fayant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the world's champion advertising cliche? To find out, Frank H. Fayant, an early Lord & Thomas partner whose retirement in 1932 has given him time to mull, skimmed through magazines and newspapers. His prize cliché: the phrase claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: World's Champion Clich | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...said Fayant, "I wrote one of 'em myself"-"World's most famous train" (20th Century Limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: World's Champion Clich | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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