Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERT W. MONSCHEIN Madison...
Along Manhattan's Madison Avenue, where no one ups periscope without first checking with the research boys, admen were passing around the latest...
...psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very punches...
...William Ernest Hocking is-as he himself has said-something of a "solitary fighter" among philosophers. Since the death of his wife in 1955, he has lived in his farmhouse in Madison, N.H. with only a housekeeper to help him. A courtly man who is seldom without a pocketful of seed for the birds about his place, he works by himself from 8:30 each morning to 10 at night in a spacious stone library, takes time out only to do a little painting, putter about the grounds, play on his electric organ, or chop a stack of firewood...
Omnibus: "For all its goodies, it'll never be commercial," said an adman when Omnibus opened five years ago. Last week, as it began its first season without Ford Foundation support (and its first on NBC), Omnibus proved Madison Avenue more wrong than ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play...