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...advertising becomes more pervasive, so does debate about it. Never before have admen been so concerned about the future of their business or so nervous over charges that Madison Avenue is somehow corrupting the standards of Main Street...
...conspicuously visible part of it. Fascinated as it is with the business of finding better ways to live, the U.S. public wastes little time worrying about whether advertising may be damaging to its collective psyche. It is unlikely that the citizenry will ever take the step some admen seem to yearn for and pass a national vote of thanks to advertising for its part in enriching U.S. life. But it is equally unlikely that the public will ever be suborned out of its unemotional recognition of the adman for what he is: a highly effective salesman without whose efforts...
Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
...industries in which the general public has never had a real chance to invest is the $12 billion-a-year advertising business. Last week admen from coast to coast were chattering over the news that a Manhattan agency had broken the pattern by asking...
Questions & Gyrations. Despite these obvious advantages, most admen are still skeptical of public ownership. Their big fear is that it might undermine the confidential relationship between an agency and its clients. "I wouldn't want to be part of an agency that owed its primary obligation to stockholders," says Fairfax Cone, executive committee chairman of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding. Adds Ernest Jones, president of Detroit's MacManus, John & Adams: "If there were outside stockholders, they would have the right to ask such questions as 'What is the contemplated Pontiac budget for next year?' Well...