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Word: videodex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revenue from the Godfrey shows, has no reservations about him as a salesman. CBS Vice President Howard Meighan looks forward to the "millennium" when all CBS announcers will have been made over in Godfrey's image. Board Chairman Paley is impressed by the results of a Videodex survey that gave Talent Scouts top rating in two portentous categories: "most interesting" commercials (85%) and "most believable" (94%). No one else was even close. "He's so sincere he even sells off the air," says Paley. "One day in a conference he started selling me Glass Wax. And I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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