Showing posts with label Edward R. Murrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward R. Murrow. Show all posts

Thursday, June 17, 2010

It's Always August Under your Armpits

"Someone Left a Cake Out in the Rain"Image by Scurzuzu via Flickr
On CBS radio the news of Ed Murrow’s death, reprotedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. – Alexander Kendrick




I have been against commercial broadcasting ever since I heard a Toscanini radio concert in New York interrupted by the sponsor’s slogan – “It may be December outside, ladies; but it is always August under your armpits. – John Snagge



Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. – John Kenneth Galbraith



The best ad is a good product. – Alan H. Meyer



In advertising there is a saying that if you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs – then you just don’t understand the problem. – Hugh M. Beville, Jr.



It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett


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