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...Iowa farm boy, Stan Talbott had a slick way of convincing roadside customers that he sold only freshly laid eggs. Stan would duck into the henhouse where he kept his ready-packaged eggs, push the hens about to make them cackle, and presently reappear with the eggs carefully sprinkled with pillow feathers...
...course Salesman Talbott became advertising vice president of Joyce, Inc., one of the world's biggest makers of women's play shoes. To get a line on women's likes & dislikes, he tried a door-to-door canvass, but busy housewives gave him the brushoff. So he packed a laundry bundle and started talking to women at self-service laundries, where they had plenty of time to kill. Besides talking, he read magazine ads to the women to see which words got a rise out of them...
...short life, the monthly had burned up $800,000 invested by Backers Harold Talbott, Jack Chrysler, Angier Biddle Duke, Joe Uihlein Jr. (Schlitzbeer) and others. To keep going, Kaleidoscope needed another $1,400,000, and nobody wanted to risk that much. Explained Publisher William Husted: "There's a falling market in the fashion industry right now ... and we just didn't get enough advertising." (From 172 pages of ads in October, sales had dropped to 56 in November, only 22½ in December...
...center was on the hotel's eighth floor. There Dewey's large and highly competent staff operated. There were John Foster Dulles, adviser on foreign affairs, and Elliott Bell, state superintendent of banks and adviser on national policies. In charge of campaign fund-raising was Harold E. Talbott, onetime polo player, director of the Chrysler Corp...
...Talbott's conclusion: "To know when to stop a drug is frequently as important as to know when to prescribe...