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Word: travisano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return to Poland, for example, the magazine's cover featured Hollywood horror movies. Says Ron Travisano, president of Delia Femina, Travisano and Partners, a leading New York advertising agency: "Newsweek is not so 'hot' any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Late News from Newsweek | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...skeptical-than ever. They tend to press for the safe old selling ways of the '50s, when the focus was squarely on the product, often to the exclusion of humor, mood or elegance. The clients also insist on more research. Says Jerry Della Femina, head of Delia Femina Travisano & Partners, who is currently working up ads for Emery Air Freight, a forwarder: "Everything is tested, usually in small cities instead of big markets to hold down marketing expenditures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Back to the Hard Sell for a Lean Industry | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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