During World War II, David Ogilvy worked for the British Intelligence Service (BIS) at the British embassy in Washington, DC. There he analysed and made recommendations on matters of diplomacy and security.
he extrapolated his knowledge of human behaviour from consumerism to nationalism in a report which suggested 'applying the Gallup technique to fields of secret intelligence Eisenhower's Psychological Warfare Board picked up the report and successfully
put Ogilvy's suggestions to work in Europe during the last year of the war."
Also during World War II David Ogilvy was a notable alumnus of the secret Camp X, located near the towns of Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. According to an article on the camp: "It was there he mastered the power of propaganda before becoming king of Madison Avenue.
"Although Ogilvy was trained in sabotage and close combat, he was ultimately tasked with projects that included successfully ruining the reputation of businessmen who were supplying the Nazis with industrial materials.""
Ogilvy started his own advertising agency with the backing of Mather and Crowther, the London agency being run by his elder brother, Francis, which later acquired another London agency, S.H. Benson"
"David Ogilvy's entry into the company of giants started with several iconic advertising campaigns; former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt did a commercial for Good Luck Margarine in 1959."
In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry"
"In 1973, Ogilvy retired as chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and moved to Touffou, his estate in France. While no longer involved in the agency's day-to-day operations, he stayed in touch with the company. His correspondence so dramatically increased the volume of mail handled
in the nearby town of Bonnes that the post office was reclassified at a higher status and the postmaster's salary raised"
"Ogilvy came out of retirement in the 1980s to serve as chairman of Ogilvy Benson & Mather in India. He also spent a year acting as temporary chairman of the agency's German office commuting weekly between Touffou and Frankfurt."
In 1989, The Ogilvy Group was bought by WPP Group, a British parent company, for $864 million (US) in a hostile takeover made possible by the fact that the company group had made an IPO as the first company in marketing to do so.
THR : "it’s hard to imagine [Cedars-Sinai] was founded as a 12-bed facility in a Victorian house near downtown in 1902. Then called Kaspare Cohn Hospital, it was run by the Hebrew Benevolent Society...
Later renamed Cedars of Lebanon, an Old Testament reference to the timber used for Solomon’s Temple, it expanded into a grand Art Deco building on Fountain Avenue in Hollywood [1930] & tapped the wallets of film moguls Jack Warner and Joseph Schenck, as well as Will Rogers...
"In 2010 the Mappins decided to hold a birthday celebration in honour of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Camelot Castle, to “express our tremendous appreciation for what the President of Kazakhstan has done for our family”"..🤔
(exactly what this had been was not revealed). Bizarrely, the local Salvation Army were somehow recruited to sing Happy Birthday to the notoriously corrupt autocrat."..🤔
Mappin discovered Scientology while trying unsuccessfully to become a Hollywood star in the 1990s (the only part he succeeded in landing was in a softcore porn movie, alongside the unfortunately named Julie Strain)...
May 12, 2000
"The Vatican named Bishop Edward M. Egan yesterday to be the ninth archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal John O'Connor as head of the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic diocese...🤔
As bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., and as a Vatican jurist, Egan proved himself part intellectual, part populist, and a man comfortable with the press.".. web.archive.org/web/2017082820…
Egan, 68, has split his time between the United States and Rome. He served for almost four years under O'Connor in the mid-1980s before moving on to Bridgeport, where he is credited with bringing in new priests and shoring up church finances.".. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27…
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