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2009 Billy Mays, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc., dies at age 50
1996 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89 1994 Allan G. Odell, Advertising executive (Burma Shave), dies at 90 1984 Rosser Reeves, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby, dies 1982 William Bernbach, advertising magnate, dies at 71 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA 1958 Billy Mays, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc. 1946 Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page 1935 Donald Edwin White, advertising copywriter/opera administrator 1930 New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising 1912 Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York 1910 Rosser Reeves, born in Danville, Virginia, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby 1906 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate |
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