Tidbits & Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages Wonder which placement agency handled this one... CERT, a non-profit federation of 25 American Indian tribes that own a substantial share of the energy resources in the...
...It conveyed the startling news that Reagan had slipped from 48 to 26 per cent support among Iowa Republicans...
...THIS HAS BEEN A TEST...
...So there is a niche in the Advertising Hall of Fame waiting for the person at Ogilvy and Mather who came up with the latest series of television commercials for TWA...
...Freberg produced a batch of spots that poked fun at the seeming cool of hardened air travelers by suggesting that, when a plane taxied down the runway, it was "sweaty palms all the way...
...The sixth paragraph of the story provided this important limited-warranty disclaimer: "The margin of error in polling, especially with a small sample (267 voters), means that Reagan's lead could be non-existent, or greater or smaller...
...his last employer, the Ayatollah Khomeini...
...California's Answer to Marva Collins Do your kids leave Bosco rings on the Waterford crystal...
...Then get in touch with Guity Bet Badal of Beverly Hills...
...The airline's ticket sales immediately went down in flames...
...Certainly that is what we thought, until one day a few weeks ago when we were driving along, late to work, with our radio tuned to WWDC and heard the announcer on the phone congratulating a person, identified as an Amtrak employee, for winning a $1,000 contest sponsored by the Washington station...
...CERT, a non-profit federation of 25 American Indian tribes that own a substantial share of the energy resources in the western half of the United States, has hired a new chief economist...
...The child looks worried until he sees that Dad has a choice between a Boeing 747 and a Lockheed L-1101...
...The spots were canned, along with some of the executives who had commissioned them...
...HAD IT BEEN AN ACTUAL STORY...
...There is only one other wide body jet...
...Y'all Pylon Board Years ago, a California airline hired humorist Stan Freberg to come up with a series of commercials that frankly addressed people's fears about airline safety...
...From the Labors of Calvin Klein...
...In January the Washington Post ran a front-page story under the headline: "Reagan to Keep Low Iowa Profile Despite Poll Slip...
...His name is Ahmed Kooro...
...The reason, you probably thought, was a heavy volume of incoming calls caused by the energy situation...
...You Can't Win if You Don't Enter Had trouble reaching Amtrak by phone...
...The New Calvinism The advertisement in The New York Times is from Saks Fifth Avenue...
...It shows a rugged man in a T-shirt...
...Ever since then, airlines have been probing with little success for subtler ways to play upon the air passenger's reasonable fear for his life...
...The headline reads, "Sporting the Tee...
...She just opened "Guity—The Finishing School," where nine-to12 year-olds can get 12 lessons in table manners for $3,000...
...In case you haven't seen them, they feature a father bidding his son goodbye at the terminal...
...his nationality, Iranian...
...Proletarian Chic...
...The Amtrak worker replied that he was particularly delighted to have won since so many of his colleagues had been talking about the contest and calling in their answers...
...At TWA the only wide-bodies we fly are 747s and L-110 Is, the ones people like most," intones the announcer, as the child breaks into a smile...
Vol. 11 • February 1980 • No. 12
