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MacNeal's dismissal temporarily stalled any major deal until Curtis finds a new president. Last week the company was conducting a public search to fill the job, at a lower salary. Most likely candidate was Adman Matthew Culligan, 44, a director of Interpublic, Inc., the parent company of the McCann-Erickson advertising agency...
...most ambitious attempt to fill the void is the Minneapolis Daily Herald, introduced May 1 by Minneapolis Adman Maurice McCaffrey. Although the Herald has little visible merit, cribs freely from TV newscasts, lacks even a wire service, and drips with errors (its daylight-saving time announcement missed the changeover by 24 hours), McCaffrey claims a press...
...contemplated Pontiac budget for next year?' Well, that happens to be between us and Pontiac." Papert, Koenig, Lois intends to avoid some of these risks by retaining 80% of its shares in the hands of its officers. Even so, argues President Robert Lusk of Benton & Bowles, "an adman would be less inclined to take risks on his clients' behalf if he had to face a stockholders' meeting every year." Still other advertising executives fear that ad-agency shares would be dangerously volatile, gyrating wildly every time an agency won or lost a big account...
Apart from Papert, Koenig and Lois, in fact, only one well-known adman took an openly enthusiastic view of public ownership last week. Sighed David Ogilvy, British-reared chairman of Manhattan's Ogilvy, Benson & Mather: "We here at Ogilvy own our stock at book value only...
Lover Come Back. Rock Hudson and Doris Day as adman and adwoman in a stock situation comedy worked out as smoothly as a chess problem: opening gambit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate...