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Ostrow and Rome are, naturally, wrong. Society Bandleader Lester Lanin noticed not long ago that the well-bred teen-agers at his deb parties had begun to ask him to play the Mr. Clean song (composer: Adman Thomas Cadden) or the Newport cigarette cha cha cha. Last week Lanin, who has made a career of knowing where the money is, announced the title of his next long-playing record: Lester Lanin on Madison Avenue, jingle tunes without words, played at our-song tempo...
...monopoly-minded Japanese were more accustomed to making private arrangements with competitors. With most of Japan's production in the hands of a few big business combines and the militarist government favoring heavy industry over consumer goods, there was no room for well-planned, creative ad campaigns. An adman's chief function was to sell space in newspapers and magazines; often he was greeted by signs that warned: "Peddlers and advertising men, keep...
...enough or well-informed enough. If anybody can be anything he wishes, no wonder the businessman is made to feel guilty if he has neither ear nor taste for modern music (but somehow, the artist never seems to feel guilty about not understanding business). No wonder, too, that the adman thinks he ought to be able to write a novel or to know all about the atom. In an absurd misapplication of the ideal of equality, one man's opinions become as valid as another's. Thus, every man competes not only in his own job or his own social...
...wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took off on a spur-of-the-moment trip to the movies (Spartacus) with old Navy Buddy Paul B. Fay Jr. (now Under Secretary of the Navy). Kennedy's Choate roommate, K. Le Moyne Billings, now a Manhattan adman, comes and goes like a member of the family. So does husky Georgetown Artist Bill Walton, who befriended Jackie during her days as an inquiring photographer on the Washington Times-Herald. These people are all old friends, and Jack Kennedy sees no reason for sharing them with a curious public...
...President sandwiched in a little outdoor activity in the Kennedy tradition. One morning he put on a plaid sports jacket, some old shoes and an old hat, picked up a snappy walking cane, and hiked through the snow-covered streets of Washington with his Choate roommate, New York Adman K. Le Moyne Billings. Later in the day he stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, hopes to get him to relax...