Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant in Kerala that will produce 270 million contraceptives a year by 1970. To make sure that all Indians get the message, the government will launch a nationwide "use condoms" advertising campaign. Making a pitch for the lucrative contract is another capitalistic enterprise-the U.S.'s J. Walter Thompson Co. (see U.S. BUSINESS). Explained one family-planning official: "We want the condom to be as well advertised as Coca-Cola...
...years of existence, J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's largest advertising agency, has had exactly three chief executives-J. Walter Thompson, Stanley Resor and Norman H. Strouse. Last week Thompson's board of directors elected a fourth. Strouse, who has held the job for seven years, will retain his title of chairman, but he will give up day-to-day details to devote himself to long-range planning and industry speechmaking. Succeeding him as boss of the biggest: broad-shouldered Dan Seymour, 53, who has been JWT's president for the past three years...
...went over to Madison Avenue. For five years he was with Young & Rubicam, selecting shows to suit the sponsors. In 1955 he moved to Thompson, which, in spite of its size, had been slow getting into the enormous new field of TV. Seymour reorganized the radio-TV department, was the agency's show shopper. He did so well that he soon had a hand in all of the agency's activities. Thus, after Stanley Resor died and Strouse was left alone to run the shop, Seymour was a natural choice for president...
...George, can you tell us anything at all about what the President and Ambassador Thompson discussed? Failing that, even how long they talked...
...your knowledge, is Ambassador Thompson going back, and do you know when...