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...Chicago, a career mom, walks just this kind of parenting tightrope. Holding down a demanding job in an advertising agency, she works even harder at home, rearing a daughter, 5, and a son, 2. If Knotts and her husband had their way, she would set aside being adwoman and work full time as a mom. That was what they had planned. "After our first child was born, we knew I'd have to keep working," she says, "but we thought it would be for only a couple of years...
...response to all this attention has been largely positive. "It's about time," says Pat Tobin, an L.A.-based adwoman whose clients include Toyota and AT&T. "African Americans helped build this country, and we've been shut out too long." Nevertheless, some blacks are put off by the idea of being treated as a monolithic entity instead of as individuals with tastes as diverse as anyone else's. Indeed, companies that actively pursue the black market run the risk of being criticized for stereotyping black consumers or exploiting them. "There's a fine line between trying to appeal...
...angrily to the Cunningham resignation. Many said that Agee was at least equally responsible because he naively made executive romance a topic for public speculation. Others bitterly complained that the Bendix matter will make brains plus beauty a terrible handicap for a woman in business. Asked one New York adwoman: "Do you have to look like Gertrude Stein to get ahead...
Died. Kay Daly Leslie, 55, harddriving, creative adwoman behind most of Revlon, Inc.'s campaigns for 25 years, who helped build the huge U.S. cosmetics industry; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Reared in Wisconsin, Daly crashed male-dominated Madison Avenue in the early 1950s when as an agency copywriter she drew up Revlon's famous "Fire and Ice" campaign. It brought sex appeal to the selling of lipstick and nail polish and made Daly indispensable to Revlon. Later she became vice president and creative director of the company, where (at $100,000 plus...
Before each game, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath finds a quiet spot and seems to nod off. In the middle of a gale on Long Island Sound, while her friends are wrestling with lines and sails, Wendy Sherman, a Manhattan adwoman, slips to the bow of a 36-ft. yawl, makes herself as comfortable as she can, and closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other...