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The New York Times's station WQXR is one of the few gentle havens in radio's jingle-jangle jungle. No giveaways, soap operas, rock'n'roll or singing commercials mar its well-mannered purr of good music, mostly classical. But as WQXR reaped prestige, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Kindest Cut | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Golden Boy is a happy little statuary fellow only 30 in. tall, and nobody knows exactly how old he is. He has a plump, round belly, is full of grace, and in a perpetual state of adoration. When anyone picked him up he would jingle faintly as if things were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Golden Boy's Operation | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Jingle Jangle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

But for all Gilbert's distress, the lowly singing commercial-once denounced by Herbert Hoover, and banned from the air "in the public interest" by Detroit's WWF -now commands the talents of bigger names than his. Last month Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser entered the jingle-writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Jingle Jangle | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

"Native Art Form." The little jingle is now bigtime. Admen long ago realized that not since Young crossed the Rubicam has advertising found a more hypnotic pitch. In the 18 years since Pepsi-Cola hit the spot with a jazzy version of the English ballad John Peel, the singing commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Jingle Jangle | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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