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Omnibus: "For all its goodies, it'll never be commercial," said an adman when Omnibus opened five years ago. Last week, as it began its first season without Ford Foundation support (and its first on NBC), Omnibus proved Madison Avenue more wrong than ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play...
...Emerson Foote, 50, who resigned nine months ago as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson Inc., the world's second-largest ad agency (first: J. Walter Thompson), returned to advertising as chairman of Manhattan's Geyer Advertising, Inc. Longtime (26 years) topflight Adman Foote, who left McCann-Erickson (TIME, Feb. 18) "to return to the personal practice of advertising," made a "substantial" investment in Geyer, which ranks 38th in ad billing with bookings of $20.5 million. Self-described as "an overgrown account executive and a frustrated copywriter," Foote will get a chance to work both ends...
After Revson had chewed up a reported 18 account executives, McCann-Erickson got tired of the slaughter and parted company with him in 1948. Revlon shifted to the William Weintraub agency, where, said one adman, "Bill Weintraub knew how to handle Revson; he just outshouted him, and everything was fine." Then Weintraub's Norman B. Norman, who holds the record (seven years) for working personally with Revson, bought out Weintraub to form his own Norman, Craig & Kummel agency. But no sooner did Norman buy the rights to the $64,000 Question for Revlon than trouble began. Says Norman: "After...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
...generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...