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Natkin (reading from graffiti ads): "Keep America beautiful. Bury a cheap, ugly pen today. Buy a Paper Mate." Some research has been done on this and it looks like it's working. "Draw a flower on your knee with a Paper Mate Flair." Westbrook: Why not "navel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Spitballing, or brainstorming, is something like a group-therapy session in which the patient is the product and the doctors are the admen. Recently, TIME Correspondent Edgar Shook sat in on a brainstorming meeting at Chicago's North Advertising Inc. The patient: Flair, a new Paper Mate pen with a nylon tip. Among the doctors: North President Don Nathanson, Creative Director Alice Westbrook, Copy Chief Bob Natkin and Copywriters Steve Lehner and Ken Hutchison. The dialogue, somewhat condensed: Natkin: We have what I think must be the first graffiti advertising campaign, which we've been running in teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Natkin: They wouldn't let us say it. We are going to compromise. It was going to be "Draw a flower around your genitals with a Paper Mate Flair." Then they'd say "knee" and we'd say "navel," and we'd meet in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...know, you can do a fantastic industrial campaign on the idea of a silent pen. Because just think of the noise level. I mean, nothing is noisier than these competitor's pens. Everybody quiet. Just listen. (He scratches first with the competitor's pen, then with a Flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: SPITBALLING WITH FLAIR | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Unique Rapport. Though shy, Trudeau somehow achieved unique rapport with people. The metamorphosis began, his aides say, about the time of the Liberal nominating convention. After that, Trudeau's flair for showmanship became his dominant trait. During the campaign, he reached out to the tumultuous crowds just as eagerly as they clutched for his hand. Thus began the phenomenon that the press quickly dubbed "Trudeaumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Man of Tomorrow | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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