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...liberal consensus of public opinion suffers from the same basic weakness as Goldwater's notion of the conservative consensus--neither exists--but Bowles' argument at least has some interesting historical roots. Bowles sees a pattern in American political history of recurring "breakthroughs" (or "breaksthrough": this is definitely an adman's word): at the times of Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. These breakthroughs occurred when the party in power was no longer able to cope with a situation, and the minority had developed a new and promising approach to the problem. The old minority was then able to form...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. The father of soap operas, schoolgirl complexions and singing commercials is given his due in this anecdote-laden biography of the late Adman Albert Lasker...
Noble in Purpose. The clash of tastes is sometimes painful on both sides. A Madison Avenue adman, opening the door to one of the Row's austerer shrines, took one look and fled-"I thought maybe I had to be elected." One cutter, gingerly removing a Brooks Brothers jacket from a customer, murmured reproachfully: "Not, I think, one of ours, sir." But despite the awesome atmosphere and the great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave...
...clear, brief and-as platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador to In dia, Kennedy's chief foreign policy ad viser, and an anchor man of Democratic liberals...
CASTRO'S ADMAN who ran U.S. campaign to try to lure dollar-filled tourists to Cuba is suing Cuban government for more than $100,000 in unpaid bills. Armed with a court writ, Miami's Harris & Co. Advertising had sheriff seize a Cuban Aerovias at Fort Lauderdale, is trying to seize all Cuban property in Florida, including bank accounts...