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What Brands Can Learn From NASA’s Marketing of the Apollo Missions

The fear of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War was so palpable that a common joke at the time was: "What do you want to be if you grow up?" In the late 1950s, 60% of American children suffered nightmares about it. Hollywood didn't help. During the 1950s, science fiction crossed to the dark... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dieter Pevsner obituary

My father, Dieter Pevsner, who has died aged 87, was one of a small group of idealists who made up the editorial team at Penguin Books in the late 1950s and 60s and were instrumental in establishing the wide range of affordable literature that we all take for granted today.Dieter was editorial... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2019-10-03 17:20:10 UTC ]
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Where to Start With V.S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul, the award-winning writer born in Trinidad who settled in England and wrote an astonishing number of great novels and searing works of nonfiction, died over the weekend at the age of 85. After publishing a novel, The Mystic Masseur, and a number of short stories about Trinidad in... Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Geoffrey Godbert obituary

Poet and editor who co-founded the Greville PressGeoffrey Godbert, who has died aged 80, published more than a dozen collections of his own poetry; was joint editor of the Greville Press with Harold Pinter and Anthony Astbury; and produced two very successful anthologies, 100 Poems by a Hundred... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'