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Sylvester also delights in taking cracks at TV, Madison Avenue admen (one of them worried so much that his hair turned charcoal grey), and the big names of show business whose egos outgrow their talents (favorite targets: Arthur Godfrey, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra). "Wouldn't it be wonderful," observed Sylvester one bright morning, "if Arthur Godfrey hired Mario Lanza and Lanza quit before Arthur could fire...
...Admen's Heartburn. This week, amid the scaffolding of half-finished office buildings, in ancient music halls hastily made into studios and in smart Mayfair suites, feverish platoons of producers, directors, scriptwriters, camera crews, actors and admen are marshaling their forces for TV-day-Sept. 22. Commercial television, British-style, will not start out as a replica of the American brand. By government ruling, only six minutes of sales talk will be allowed each hour, and the plugs must be concentrated at the beginning and end of the hour, or during "natural breaks" in the program. No sponsor...
They are "briefed" on an "operation"; they carry not guns or rods, but "weapons" supplied by their own ordnance officer; they attack an "objective" and never make a getaway-they "withdraw." When they are not in action, most of them behave like polite, narrow-lapelled Madison Avenue admen...
...before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor of unobtrusive Rightness, are kindly amused by the Locals, find butlers ostentatious and profess a terror...
...viewer should try to lose himself in the beauty of the picture-has liberated many of his readers from the cold bonds of snobbism and artificial art-loving. Self & Non-Self. Today Berenson's nickname, "B.B.," is as familiar to the art world as B.B.D. & O. is to admen. His villa has become a must for American tourists in Italy. Lucky visitors are entertained at tea, where the conversation ranges from English through French, German and Italian to classical Greek, and from Giorgione to gardening or the low state of modern art.* His parties begin and end right...