ADVERTISING: A Bongo for the Congo

In the Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50ยข a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each.

Nobody was happier at the song's success than George M. McCoy, executive vice president of Borden Food Products Co., makers of Klim, a powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that,...

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