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Robert M. Oksner was an award-winning ad man for some of New York's top advertising agencies for three decades. He wrote such famous ads as "He's well on his way to being a brilliant surgeon. Now's your chance to stop him. Just turn this page" for the United Negro College Fund〔 Life magazine, Aug. 2, 1968 〕 and "Full Color Sound" for Sony Tape, with art by Milton Glaser.〔 AIGA Design Archives: http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/%2Bid%3A13698/_/detail/relevance/asc/0/7/13698/sony-tape-full-color-sound/1〕 Oksner left advertising to be an early scriptwriter for the pioneering children's educational television show Sesame Street, where he created the character Simon Soundman (performed by Jerry Nelson) who spoke mainly in sound effects. He is now a creative consultant for nonprofit, educational and public interest agencies. ==Biography== Oksner was born January 6, 1926 in Buffalo, New York and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Simon, was a haberdasher and his mother, Blanche, worked in a defense plant in St. Louis and later as a court stenographer. Upon graduating high school in 1943, Oksner joined the Coast Guard where he took weather observations in the North Atlantic as chief aerographer's mate during World War II. After the war, he studied English and Psychology at Washington University, earning his BA in 1949. He worked in a small ad agency in St. Louis before moving on to the large St. Louis department store, Stix, Baer & Fuller, where he worked as a copywriter. His work included a pun-filled weekly column carried in St. Louis media, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, featuring headlines such as "New Donut Maker Comes Through with Flying Crullers" and a description of a shorts/skirt/shirt ensemble for ladies titled "Ready for Play at the Drop of a Skirt." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert M. Oksner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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