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Chief Censor. Probably the most influential voice in determining what is acceptable advertising is the New York Times, which has cut the basic pattern for many of its contemporaries. As "chief censor" of the Times for the past 18 years, Joseph W. Gannon, a graduate of Dartmouth and the N. W. Ayer ad agency, sets the standards for the Times-which he calls "the strictest in the field." Last year, redfaced, blue-nosed Censor Gannon and staff reworded, revised or rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhapsody in Blue | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...describing underwear as "Naughty-but so nice . . ." read in the Gannonized version: "Paris-inspired-but so nice . . ." When a Manhattan nightclub boasted that it possessed "Fifty of the hottest girls this side of hell," Censor Gannon deftly made it "Fifty of the most alluring maidens this side of paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhapsody in Blue | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Shepard modified his usual tight man-to-man defense, frequently changing to a localized zone with Rockwell and Smith Shifting men under the basket. Watching the game from the sidelines was last year's quintet captain Chip Gannon, now coaching at Springfield's American International College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springfield Stops Quintet, 59-55, With Late Splurge | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Among the visitors at practice were Chip Gannon and Nick Rodis, both of whom are now coaching at American International. Davey Nelson, however, left Cambridge for Maine immediately after filling his Yale reports with his former boss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Week Starts With Light Drill | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...hope that we will never again have an outstanding football team," said President Robert Gannon of Fordham University two years ago. Under his rigid de-emphasis program, the once-powerful Ram shrank to an emaciated shadow of its old self. Then Father Gannon left Fordham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scuffling Cinderellas | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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