Word: rubicam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, however, the Hobby Lobby got NBC into the law courts. It all stemmed from the preparations for the July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them...
Other speakers: Professor (economics) Nathaniel Waring Barnes of Columbia University; William Kenneth Anderson, Research Director for Lament, Corliss & Co.; Russell Young (Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency) ; Lee H. Bristol (Bristol-Myers Co.). President Mortimer Berkowitz of The American Weekly said darkly: "Most people do not think...
...Katharine Fisher, director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, and to Arthur Charles Nielsen, Chicago market researcher, went silver medals. Among agencies, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn won two firsts, one honorable mention, and B. B. D. & O.'s president, Roy S. Durstine, received first radio medal. Young & Rubicam scored one first, five honorable mentions and second radio medal. Newell-Emmett, Blackett-Sample, Hummert, and G. Lynn Sumner each won a first. N. W. Ayer had three honorable mentions. McCann-Erickson had two honorable mentions, Lennen & Mitchell, Fuller & Smith & Ross, Rickard & Co. and Geyer, Cornell & Newell, Inc. one each...
...Peace Award for her pacifist achievements over two decades. Operating on an annual $100,000 budget. World Peaceways puts its faith in free advertising. In FORTUNE two years ago appeared the first of a series of World Peaceways full-page ads, written by Bruce Barton. Now prepared by Young & Rubicam, the campaign has reached the point, projected several years ago, "where we would dare to introduce a little ridicule." A recent World Peaceways page showed a disabled veteran, with the caption: "Hello, sucker...
Other agencies which laid out more than $1,000,000 were Young & Rubicam (Castoria, Fels Naptha, Grape-Nuts, Packard); Benton & Bowles (Best Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet); Erwin Wasey (Real Silk Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...