Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sponsor, a weekly magazine published for Madison Avenue, called them "a peanut gallery spawned out of the police beat by way of the feature desk...
...summers ago Perry Miller suggested that Madison Avenue be razed from 42nd to 57th Streets. This would eliminate most of the great advertising agencies, decimate the radio and television networks, and destroy the headquarters (at 44th Street) of the legendary Gray Flannel Suit...
...would not lead to the disappearance of the commercialism which Madison Avenue has come to symbolize. There have even been recent indications that the Avenue itself is restive about the present situation. The workers in mass media labor to produce what the Germans call kitsch, vulgarization of the better elements in a native culture...
...David Sarnoff, president of RCA, says that the prospect of viewers in three million homes placing dollars in coin boxes to see a program would be so attractive that all good programs would go under this system, and substantial free entertainment would end. It is too easy to blame Madison Avenue for commercialism. The Avenue is merely the tool of the corporations which it serves. To decry commercialism is to decry the present American spirit...
...headed by William Warfield as The Lawd, and superb singing, direction and color sets, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...