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...Lasker and Luckman. For 25 years, the mastermind of this profitable anonymity has been Chicago's famed advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker, the man who retired the industry's haughtiest name, Lord & Thomas, when he himself retired from the advertising business last year (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In 1919 Pepsodent was a peewee four-year-old formula (gross sales: around $2,000 a week), manufactured by a Scottish Chicagoan, the late Douglas Smith. Lasker agreed to risk $300,000 to advertise the new product, asked only a minority interest in the company in return. Before long, thanks to Lord...
Amos 'n' Andy hit their peak in 1931 when even newspapers found it good business to carry daily accounts of Amos' trial for murder. Albert Lasker, then Lord & Thomas advertising head, finally had to phone the pair to "get Amos out of that spot fast." The awful nationwide suspense was beginning to tell. The strain had become too great for thousands of parent & teacher groups...
...leaving, President Roosevelt told him that his friends had advised him to retain the foremost U.S. psychiatrists to work out ways of correcting and influencing public opinion. Willkie grinned. "Mr. President," said he, "have you heard of the first meeting of your fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, and Albert Lasker, the advertising man?" The President had not. Willkie told how Lasker traveled to Oyster Bay, how Teddy, all smiles, teeth and outstretched arms, burst in to greet him, crying out, "Mr. Lasker, I've been told that you have the master advertising mind in the country." Said Lasker hastily...
...Florence Scott, Long Island, N. Y. Robert S. Sturgis Sarah Abbot, Winsor Arthur S. Tarlow Stella Levi, Wellesley Richard B. Tucker Marjorie Davis, Wheaton LIONEL HALL Theodore S. Baer Dorothy Smith, Simmons Elliott R. Corbett, II Caroline Beatty, Emma Willard School Robert J. Harbison Anita Kelly, Radcliffe Robert M. Lasker Sally Leopold, Smith D. Barney Lefforts Charlotte Eckhardt, Smith...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, German-born mathematician, world's chess champion from 1894 to 1921, author (The Philosophy of the Unattainable, Cosmos Under the Aspect of Comprehension); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan...