Word: kastor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost unnoticed beyond Madison Avenue was the brief announcement last month that the ad agency of Kastor Foote Hilton & Atherton Inc. had changed its name to just plain Emerson Foote, Inc. The switch was significant: it meant that Emerson Foote, 60, had once again set up shop in a serious...
...profession that in November 1965 he wrote one more piece of copy. It ran in Advertising Age, and in it Emerson Foote asked for "another opportunity to serve in the advertising business." Sorting out 100 responses, Foote took up an offer to buy in and become president of Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc., which was then reeling from a scandal concerning Regimen tablets. Kastor Hilton had been fined $50,000 for falsely claiming that Regimen was an effective weight reducer-the first time an agency was also held liable for defrauding the public...
...Says Foote of the Regimen affair: "That hurt us. We lost accounts totaling $2,500,000 as a result of the conviction, and we found it a handicap both in attracting business and people." Today Emerson Foote, Inc.'s billings are $9,100,000 v. $14 million at Kastor Hilton's peak...
...Kastor, Hilton's ads, the Government had charged, featured a "doctored" laboratory report that cited false weight losses, used as "before" and "after" examples TV models who had crash-dieted away pounds supposedly pared off by Regimen. The agency ignored Federal Trade Commission complaints that Regimen, which sold at $3 and $5 for a box that cost as little as 300 to make, was ineffective as a weight reducer without dieting...
...Kastor, Hilton protested that the decision "thrusts upon advertising agencies new and costly responsibilities," announced that it would appeal the verdict. Norman B. Norman, president of Norman, Craig & Kummel Inc., spoke for many admen when he said that ad agencies "don't consider our chore to be policemen" over their clients' claims. Norman also said, however, that "there is no defense for this kind of advertising," added that it "is simply not true" that most clients want to deceive the public...