Word: hulbert
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Advertising men sometimes seem as eager to sell themselves as they are to promote their clients' products. A notable and reticent exception is Norman Hulbert Strouse, 61, chairman and for seven years chief executive of J. Walter Thompson, who quietly announced last week that he was going into early retirement. Closing out a 40-year career with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter...
...Died. Hulbert Taft Jr., 60, cousin of "Mr. Republican," the late Robert A. Taft, and chairman of Taft Broadcasting Co., which owns 16 radio and TV stations and produces Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones kiddie cartoons; when leaking bottled gas exploded while he was on one of his frequent inspections of the family bomb shelter that he had constructed on his estate; in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb...
...Norman Hulbert Strouse, president and chief executive officer, J. Walter Thompson Co. 2 ) Fairfax Mastick Cone, chairman of the executive committee. Foote. Cone & Belding...
...General Motors of U.S. advertising is New York's J. Walter Thompson Co. with 17 U.S. branches. 38 abroad, and worldwide billings last year of $380 million. In the driver's seat at Thompson is President Norman Hulbert Strouse, 55, a determinedly unemotional man whose prime strength lies not in the creative side of advertising but in meticulously efficient administration of his sprawling organization. Like Strouse, who wears a toothbrush mustache and half-rimmed glasses, Thompson exudes an air of solid dependability. It shuns the hard sell to turn out orthodox, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients...