Word: treyz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including mighty RCA-charging payola and other "unfair and deceptive acts." Same day, five FTC commissioners sat down at a long, dark mahogany table, solemnly exchanged views on phony advertising with the broadcasting varsity: CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton, NBC's Robert Kintner, ABC's Oliver Treyz, Mutual's Robert F. Hurleigh. Smooth talk flew back and forth as everyone tried to outdo everyone else in deploring the subject at hand. Only a few admen were guilty of malpractice, of course ("There are also statesmen in advertising," said Treyz), but where evil exists, it must...
...Kintner established his reputation as a skillful and relentless peddler of air wares. He set up the kind of crassly commercial operation so successfully carried on by his successor, Oliver Treyz, after Kintner left in a quarrel with ABC Board Chairman Leonard Goldenson in 1956. Says Kintner now: "If I were still at ABC, I wouldn't have carried the pattern that...
This week ABC's TV Network Boss Oliver Treyz took the unprecedented trouble of appearing personally on the Wallace show to make a full retraction of Cohen's vituperation and an apology to those it victimized. Wallace said that he was sorry too. Nobody suggested publicly how the show might avoid such incidents in the future. But Wallace is pondering a lawyer's idea that potentially dangerous interviews be recorded in advance...