Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John C. Doerfer assured Utah's outraged Republican Representative William A. Dawson that the FCC was investigating whether such sly brainwashing was already being practiced on unsuspecting viewers. All three networks hastily denied that they had touched the Orwellian gimmick developed by Manhattan's Subliminal Projection Co., Inc. and Experimental Films Inc. of New Orleans, but some network executives seemed curious and interested. If the FCC discovers phantom plugs on the air waves, explained Doerfer, it must still make up its mind whether it has any control over them. But Representative Dawson is champing to introduce a bill...
Television took a drubbing last week from one of its dearest friends: a TV adman. John P. Cunningham, head of Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., whose clients will funnel $20.8 million into TV this year, told 700 admen in Atlantic City that today's "pallid programing" is fast robbing even the best commercials of their power. Said he: "People will watch programs that bore them, but they tend to tune out their minds, which is bad for advertising...
...Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial Al disappeared and joined the Army (he trained soldiers...
...kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating while floating in his green marble bathtub, Dior thought much about good business too, opened his wholesaling Christian Dior-New York Inc. in 1948, organized a perfume company, designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California-in all, grossed some $15 million a year...
...FLASH BULB about the size of a thimble but with lighting power of standard bulbs will be marketed by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. early next year. Zirconium-filled, it requires a special attachment, will sell for 14?, the price of larger photo bulbs...