Word: teller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foote is part of advertising folklore. Alabama-born, he was a bank teller and a clerk before he traveled to San Francisco for his first ad job in 1931 as a researcher with a small agency. By 1938, he was in the big time. As a creative man with Albert Lasker's Lord & Thomas agency, Foote handled the American Tobacco Co. account, led the group-think that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose...
...popular are the sweaters that Manhattan's Bonwit Teller has repeatedly sold out its Pierre Cardin version, at $30 and $37.50, to such customers as Steve McQueen, Jason Robards Jr. and Paul Newman. Cardin, the designer most responsible for the trend, insists that the turtleneck is appropriate for any occasion, provided that the suit it is worn with is "modern"-by which he means a suit designed with a high-cut jacket. The style horrifies restaurant headwaiters, who are still weathering the onslaught of women in pants suits. But it appeals strongly to brolly males on both sides...
...life. And there was little doubt of the impact of their argument. Everywhere, everyone capable of understanding the significance of the Russian achievement recognized the impressive technological, industrial and scientific skills that lay behind it. Intuitively, people sensed the national purpose that produced the Russian program. Physicist Edward Teller used a sure, fund-winning tactic when he testified before a Senate committee in favor of the Apollo project. "What do you expect to find on the moon?" he was asked. His answer: "The Russians...
...specialization, the renaissance man is becoming hard to find. Yet, the curiosity of the most inventive thinkers in every field has always extended far beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...
...Eeeeeeeeeek!" the teller screams, and moments later the bank guards converge on the ladies room with revolvers drawn. The door bursts open, and out bolts a chic chick who looks as though the Loch Ness monster had just popped out of the drain...