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Furiously swinging an ax, the London adman whacks his desk into sawdust. "Andrew, darling," soothes the boss, "you're always threatening to resign." Andrew darling's hackwork is nothing compared with what Producer-Director Michael Winner (The Jokers) has done to this splintery British satire on the high cost of selling...
...from the Post Office Building where Dr. Benjamin Spock's case is being heard stands a sign that reads in large green letters: "Boston Five." A second look reveals smaller letters that complete the title of a branch office of The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. But the anonymous adman who decided to capitalize those two particular words inadvertantly provided a sort of marquee for the drama of the so-called Boston Five and their fight against government prosecution for illegally counseling draft resistance...
...this suggestion demands a skeptical response. For when Fiedler leaves the well-beaten bush of literature and psychology for territory as complex "and mystifying as the human nervous system, he is a tourist who does not speak the language. He has an unfortunate way of composing statements full of adman phrases such as "New Man" and the "West of Here and Now." He has a penchant for over-categorizine and overreaching, as when he calls Marilyn Monroe the pop-culture version of the Indian love goddess, bleached out "under the impossibly bright lights of the movie...
Despite the risks, it can be immensely profitable. Adman Marion Harper Jr. became head of McCann-Erickson in 1948 at 32, spun the outfit into the vast Interpublic Group (advertising, public relations, market research) and racked up billings of $700 million a year by last fall. When Interpublic went deep into debt, he was eased into a powerless chairmanship (TIME, Dec. 15). But when he was eased out altogether two weeks ago, Harper was not exactly out of pocket. Interpublic was reported to have bought back his 100,000 shares in the company, worth $2,200,000 at book value...
...about to retire. Like any self-respecting adman these days, he is not really out of a job; he is simply getting ready to set up shop. "In due course," Harper announced, "I shall make known the program of Marion Harper & Associates...