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What does Bowles have? The answer of his partisans: something for everybody. Businessmen can remember him as a whiz-bang adman; as co-founder of Benton & Bowles (with Connecticut's onetime Democratic Senator William Benton). he became wealthy by 40, then moved into politics, won a term (1949-51) as Governor of Connecticut. Many veterans of the clerical army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding...
Harry E. Hanners, 40, is a onetime Manhattan adman who suffered a spinal disease for five years. A painkilling drug led to his addiction and a six-month sentence in Long Island's Nassau County Jail...
...copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could not see the need for shaving under water. No one heard him. They had all left for Florida...
When they get the heft of the tools, Teacher De Long's students move on to consider emotions. "What is this writer doing with these words?" she asks, and the writer may be a True Story fictioneer or the adman who coined the phrase, "Ocean-Combed Percales" ("Can the ocean comb anything?"). If the writer is Shakespeare, she wants to know precisely and specifically how the reader is made to feel, for instance, the evil in Lady Macbeth. If the writer is a student, she wants him to say precisely what he feels. "Everything goes back to this general...
...marks the spot of Alexander King. He is an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories...