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...Publishers Information Bureau last week reported that national advertising in magazines, Sunday supplements, and on radio & TV networks hit $958 million in 1952, up 9.4% from the year before. The top four advertisers were the same as in 1951: Proctor & Gamble ($38.6 million), General Foods ($22 million), Colgate-Palmolive-Peet ($21.8 million), General Motors ($19.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: New High | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Last week White, 53, got his biggest assignment. He was named president of NBC, succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 46, who resigned, reportedly to be president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. White thus became the first man ever to have headed two major networks. Radiomen guessed that RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff is not completely satisfied with NBC's bulky overhead and slowness to fight back against CBS competition, and hopes that White will tune NBC into a better wave length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Variety Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...appear on a commercially backed show when last November another, the Rugby Club, was refused the same right. The Band's sponsor may have been a charity, as Dean Watson explained, but after all, the Connecticut Cerebral Palsy Association, which had planned the Rugby contest, is not exactly Palmolive-Peet. Apparently the Dean's Office and the Corporation, which ruled on the Rugby case, differ on whether to classify charities as commercial sponsors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules Were Made to Be. . . | 10/1/1952 | See Source »

...Kolynos, are not rushing to sign up with Rystan; Kolynos, for one, thinks that the patent may not cover its product. Last week the Block Drug Co., which cleaned up by putting the first widely distributed ammoniated tooth powder (Amm-i-dent) on the market, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet both filed suits seeking to break Rystan's patent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Green Gold | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...listening public as announcers on Boston's station WHDH, moved to Manhattan last summer and began with a 15-minute afternoon spot on NBC. As their popularity has grown, so has the number of their shows. Their newest spot, at 11:30 a.m., is sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, which dropped a soap opera called King's Row in favor of the boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spoolers | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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