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...headquarters soon got the good word: in his talk with Stevenson, Truman had flatly rejected 1) an endorsement of Adlai, and 2) a neutral stance between Stevenson and Harriman. Harriman aides set about preparing a statement, sent it to Truman by way of Sam Rosenman and retired Adman David Noyes, with the suggestion that Truman use it as the basis for his Harriman endorsement. Twenty-four hours later they learned that he would...
...three-inch shell casing full of paper clips, and a sextant which he tries in vain to sight; over it hangs the sign, "Think Big!" Nicknamed "Marblehead" because he lacks more than hair, Nash affects British knee-length shorts, carries a swagger stick, and talks a strange mixture of adman and old salt ("My hatch is open for ideas...
...Julia's world, all television is concentrated in the i^-to ^minute commercial. Explains Adman Wilson: "It may be a matter of indifference to the layman but to agencies and sponsors it is life and death. The announcer is a little like the guy in an orchestra who has to clash the cymbals at a certain moment. If he goofs, the entire symphony is ruined-at least, as far as we are concerned." Julia seldom goofs. "I try to be natural, believable, sincere," she says in a dedicated tone. "It's not easy. On the stage...
Left alone, his billings at least halved and still slipping, Adman Biow fought to keep his agency alive, even tried to push a $1,000,000 revitalizing program. Madison Avenue felt that he might make it. But Biow, mulling it all over, finally decided that the task would be too much...
This would-be satire, by an ex-adman turned novelist, is set in the political outer space of 1960. The book's hero-heel is Blade Reade, a middle-aging boy genius who tries to keep his ulcer quiet and his three telephones busy. Blade paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay...