Wad Ye Deny Print A Soft Sell Case For Newspapers
A 1960s style talk argues newspapers remain the best advertising medium despite TV and radio. It contrasts hard sell versus soft sell, praising readable ads, honesty, humor, and the power of the daily paper to drive traffic and sales with clear, entity-rich examples and industry references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Thomas
Burt
Toledo Blade
Hollywood
Toledo Waterworks
Fortune
Harry Stack Sullivan
Freud
Ford
Webster
Hathaway Shire
America
Ladies’ Home Journal
Tide’s
Saturday Evening Post
Yonder Hill
Lee’s
Gimbel
Gertrude Stein
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Ad Leader in New York History
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, renowned advertising director of Gimbels from 1940 to April 1954, launched her own advertising and merchandising consulting service in New York. She previously built reputations at Macy's, Wanamaker's, and Marshall Field, originator of famed slogans and a January 1954 convention address to the National Retail Dry Goods Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Gimbels
New York
Macy's
John Wanamaker's
Marshall Field & Company
Chicago
Fitz
New York City
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Josal
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Dorothy Kilgallen
Miss Kilgallen
Desert
Atlantic
Linda
Brad Faring
New York Times
Geldon
Meyer Berger
Arthur Krock
Walter Kerr
Dove
Walter Winchell
Anne O'Hare McCor
Gimbels White
Jack O'Brian
N.Y
Journal American
George J. van Dorp
Toledo
Water Department
van Dorp
Collins Park
Wall Street Journal
Harvard Crimson
Louis Kronenberger
Simon and Schuster
Kronenberger
Clemenceau
N.R.D.G.A
Raleigh