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...their product to deceive the customer. On the theory that informed and skeptical consumers are the first line of defense against the cheats, the commission last week held its first Washington Conference on Public Deception, attended by representatives of 47 civic, professional and business organizations. FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the commission would go all out to open its voluminous files on "trickery in the marketplace" to public view. "In the blunt language of the street," he said, "the gyp seller depends on the sucker buyer and can't exist without...
...network with credentials as program director for a West Coast radio chain, ad manager for the American Tobacco Co., and v.p. of a Madison Avenue ad agency; he was the network's president within four years, its ex-chairman three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed to fit the pattern. Although he was a highly successful independent...
...panel of five judges* relied mainly on a single gauge: "the decibel ring of the name." Noisy enough for mention: Christine Jorgensen (irresolutely described by the Register as both "he" and "she") and Zackerly (pitchman on a TV horror show). Left out as presumably not noisy enough: Robert Kintner, Allen Drury, Fabian. Notable inclusion: Cleveland Amory. Says Amory: "Frankly, I don't know whether it's more embarrassing to be in the book...
...complaints against nine record companies -including mighty RCA-charging payola and other "unfair and deceptive acts." Same day, five FTC commissioners sat down at a long, dark mahogany table, solemnly exchanged views on phony advertising with the broadcasting varsity: CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton, NBC's Robert Kintner, ABC's Oliver Treyz, Mutual's Robert F. Hurleigh. Smooth talk flew back and forth as everyone tried to outdo everyone else in deploring the subject at hand. Only a few admen were guilty of malpractice, of course ("There are also statesmen in advertising," said Treyz), but where...
...have responsibility for what is on the air," said CBS's Dr. Stanton. "May I interrupt here, Frank?" said Bob Kintner. "At NBC we accept responsibility for what is on the air, too." Not to be outdone, FTC Chairman Earl Kintner (no kin to NBC's Bob) announced: "This commission is determined to take the responsibility to keep the spigots open. We hope there's a trickle down to the stations that make up the industry." As for Mutual, it had already eliminated one offensive word from all ad copy broadcasts on the network. The word: diarrhea...