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What all this meant to J.W.T. in new billings was in the area of purest guesswork. Tide, advertising weekly, guessed at least $7,000,000, added that the bonanza put Thompson "neck & neck with Young & Rubicam for the No. 1 spot." Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Boom at J.W.T. | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...think it was fine of you to say the nice things you did about me personally. Judged by our record so far, I think most anything that is said would be a little overkind, but we are trying to have a program that all groups will be in accord with and rally to the support of. I am just hoping that all friends and followers of the University of Texas will get into a very close huddle and go out with the same signal and, if so, progress can be made. I am very enthusiastic about the opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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