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...city seems to bring together likes: people united by their specialized work (the clusters of intellectuals around the city campuses, the scientists, the editors, the admen, the garment workers) or by their special interests at play (the bowlers, the painters, the weekend sailors). It is they who supply the metropolitan vitality. Unhappily, the part of the metropolis that advertises itself most blatantly to the passing tourist points to the jazz joints on Rush Street or the celebrity seekers in the Peppermint Lounge. Luckily for civilization, the flint of genius strikes its sparks generously on the steel of the city. Artists...
Advertising men, articulate by nature, are increasingly disturbed by their most articulate critics. They could live with the sniping Harvard professors so long as their words were eloquent but unofficial. But the admen fear the professors' presence in the Kennedy Administration; they fear Democratic Administrations in general. And in particular they view Presidential Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as a sort of bogeyman because back in 1960 he proposed-halfheartedly, he says now -a tax on advertising...
...considered as violations of the existing injunction and carry a punishment of up to $5,000 a day. The FTC's Dixon concedes that the ruling is uniquely broad, but he also contends that "all we are ordering them to do is to obey the law." Admen are also concerned about Dixon's request for power temporarily to halt publication of any ads that he considers "out-and-out frauds"-before the advertisers have had a chance to plead their cases fully...
...admen condemn the FTC out of hand. Says Fairfax Cone, chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding: "The industry cannot police itself; it never could. The FTC is reaching for more authority to do what it is supposed to do." Even blunter is Dr. Max Geller, president of New York's Weiss & Geller agency, who says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure...
...Star Television, Dick Powell has made himself a millionaire many times over. The current Dick Powell Show (NBC), a loosely strung "anthology series" with room for a wide variety of stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey Rooney in a superb portrayal of a lonely seaman in Somebody's Waiting, Milton Berle as a blackjack dealer in Doyle Against the House, Jack Carson as a beatnik in Who Killed Julie Greer? Under the subtle direction...