--- description: In the advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S.... title: PERSONNEL: Quartet image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # PERSONNEL: Quartet by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 19, 1949 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 19, 1949 5:00 AM CUT In the advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan’s McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,\* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s. The new veeps: Alberta Hays and Margot Sherman, both heads of copywriting groups; Florence Richards, an account executive, and comely Dorothy B. McCann, an executive producer in the radio-TV department and wife of McCann-Erickson’s Board Chairman Harrison King McCann. \-\*The top four: J. Walter Thompson Co.; Young & Rubicam, Inc.; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc.; N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. PERSONNEL: Quartet ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792581/personnel-quartet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792581/personnel-quartet/"},"headline":"PERSONNEL: Quartet","datePublished":"1949-12-19T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T19:10:41.135Z","description":"In the advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6792581/personnel-quartet/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792581/personnel-quartet/","name":"PERSONNEL: Quartet"}}]}] ```