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...French pugnacity. Near the Madeleine in Paris, two motorists quarreled over a parking space, and in the fight that followed one dropped dead of a heart attack. An Algerian became so enraged when his car was sideswiped that he shot the other driver in the head with a pistol. Adman Joël de Cizancourt, 34, was sitting in his parked sports car when a man carrying a suitcase passed close by him. Shouting that the suitcase had scratched his beautiful car, De Cizancourt leaped out and angrily slugged the man. He turned out to be Alain Gilou...
...those days he was a debonair White Russian, Baron George Wrangel, replaced a year ago by Colin Fox, a dashing British solo Atlantic sailor. Nonetheless, Ellerton F. Jette, 65, retiring this month as president of Maine's C. F. Hathaway Co., admitted that the original suggestion by Adman David Ogilvy to use an "injured man" as a symbol gave Jette the shudders. "Why stress an unfortunate aspect, such as partial blindness?" he asked. He soon found his answer: it sure sold shirts...
Married. Frances Mary Nimitz, 24, granddaughter of Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander and hero of the Pacific theater in World War II; and Edwin Gordon Johns, 28, Manhattan adman; in New Canaan, Conn...
Died. John Price Jones, 87, among the first of the big-time professional fund raisers, a Manhattan adman who in 1919 helped his Alma Mater Harvard (class of '02) raise $15 million in three months, formed his own company to make a career of it, and in the next 30 years drummed up close to $1 billion for everything from the Salvation Army to the 1939 World's Fair; of a long illness; in Philadelphia...
...insisted Advertising Director Arthur Stein, himself a superannuated 52. "If we had some way to tell them to go away and stop reading the magazine after that, we would do it." With these blunt words, Redbook Editor Robert Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler tack: he is running large amounts of fiction on the theory that elderly females can't stomach the stuff. Says he with ill-concealed admiration...