Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read, with repugnance, the March 10 account of the Italian couple who were declared "public sinners" and, in effect, were deprived of their economic livelihood by their Catholic bishop because they contracted a civil marriage. I do not believe the founder of Christianity established any church for this purpose (slander and coercion...
...felt under such a "heavy load" imposed by the publicity about the case that he telephoned Executive Editor Charles E. Green and-as Green put it-"wondered what the paper would think." Replied the editor: "Hell, do what's right." At week's end Defendant Press, an accountant by trade had been cleared of any rape charge, but he was in the Fort Hood stockade, still" facing trial on the first girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that it reported plans for Press': trial, the Statesman...
...agency as a special vehicle for his own strongly held ideas about advertising. A onetime speechwriter for the New York World's Fair, he began his advertising career with the old William Weintraub agency, became a vice president of Grey Advertising in 1945. There, while working on the account of Ohrbach's, a low-priced Manhattan and Los Angeles department store, he stressed sophistication instead of price with the eyecatching illustration and a minimum of copy that later became his trademark, e.g., Ohrbach's recent cat ad (TIME, March 17). But Bill Bernbach found his style crimped...
...agency, waxing strong as its ads drew notice, went into TV, attracted such clients as CBS, American Export Lines, Gallo wines. But clients are accepted on Bill Bernbach's terms. They are warned in advance that the agency will run the ad account as it sees fit. Says Bernbach: "It's more important for us to know our business than their business. I've seen too many people morally wrecked in this business." Says General Manager Dane: "All three of us live very modestly. We don't have to be afraid of our clients...
This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning in mannerism. It promises a clash between the life of instinct and the life-in-death of inhibition, but the conflict is reduced to a kind of nagging suburbanality about a dissatisfied wife. Still, the tropical scenery is far more fascinating than most suburbs...