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...polyglot accents of the New York streets. A plumber, on music: "I mean to me when there's music I'll stop anything; without music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous to be comprehended, I'm gonna clarify . . . You can write Yiddish, you can write English, you can print, you can sketch with this very same...
...ADMEN (Simon & Schuster; $4] is a sadly unsatiric novel by Satirist Shepherd Mead, onetime vice president of Benton & Bowles, who was wackily horrifying about the pitchman's trade in The Big Ball of Wax. This time the author does not try for laughs, instead achieves a notable first: a novel whose characters will have to be deepened before they are translated to the screen...
...nothing more than a four-year-old child with fur," burbled an adman pursuing a dog-food account. This kind of talk might offend some old-fashioned parents, but the pitchman knew on which side his yummy was sugared. In ten years of more money and suburban living, U.S. dogs have increased 35% to 26 million; more than 40% of U.S. homes have one or more. U.S. consumers now spend more for dog food than baby food. In 1948 they bought less than i billion Ibs.; last year they spent $350 million for 2.1 billion Ibs. In the next five...
...fond d'un regard que Von decouvre une ame," insisted the soulful pitchman for a mascara pencil...
...Denver, which somehow supports 19 strenuously competitive radio stations, it takes a major uproar to attract the listeners' undivided attention. Last week the uproar was being provided by a self-styled boy genius named Don Burden and his newly bought radio station KMYR. Burden, a lively pitchman of 29 who owns two other stations, made his pitch by announcing a $50,000 "Treasure Hunt." The old scheme has seldom been so doughtily exploited. College boys plastered downtown store windows with promotional stickers, annoying merchants so much that KMYR ran a newspaper ad apologizing. The first hints as to where...