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...Astra. In Tokyo, after he clambered up the 100-ft. smokestack of the Central Post Office wearing a Santa Claus costume, unfurled a huge banner touting a nightclub Christmas party and was dragged back to earth by guards, Adman Teruo Sawashige explained to law officers: "I was told to do something extra novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Then Univac stepped in, sifted and sorted the answers of both sexes, spewed forth a couple of its favorites: John Caran, 28, a Los Angeles adman, and pretty, brown-eyed Barbara Smith, 23, a receptionist. In September the couple saw each other for the first time, before the People Are Funny camera, and, boasts Linkletter, "hit it off great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Electronic Cupid | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...tickets for My Fair Lady, had to pay $22.50 apiece. Another company, which forgot to order World Series tickets awarded to a contest winner, put in an urgent call to its New York advertising agency to find four seats, got clipped $208 over the box-office price. As one adman explained: "We have a perfectly honest agent who gets our tickets at regular prices. We have very little trouble-just tip him around $250 each Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: My Fair Scalper | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Eight years later. Maggie has a daughter and a surfeit of Dexter. Then she meets Ray Masters, a Manhattan adman turned novelist, whose "brown eyes, with their heavy lashes, looked almost boldly into Maggie's.'' Dexter takes the bad news like a true son of John Harvard, and, with her second husband. Maggie at last moves into the New York-Hollywood glamour spheres she always dreamed about. But Ray's reedlike pliancy proves as irritating as Dexter's rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Married. Carol Elaine Channing, 35, raucous, outsized (5 ft. 9 in., 136 Ibs.) musicomedy zany whose who-me? expression and wild dancing wowed Broadway in 1949's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; and Charles Franklin Lowe, 38, Hollywood adman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Boulder City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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