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...self-assured David Mackenzie Ogilvy, the road to quick success on Madison Avenue was paved with good inventions. As chief of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, which he founded 15 years ago, he has used polished presentations to woo and win blue-chip clients such as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Sears, Roebuck, and he has turned out sophisticated campaigns spotlighting the man in the Hathaway shirt and the Rolls-Royce, where "At Sixty Miles an Hour the Loudest Noise Comes from the Electric Clock." He was always ready to give an interviewer a phrase that would catch headlines, and to send...
...BENSON Kamuge, Uganda...
Last week Pat McGinnis' railroading career came in for more criticism-this time from the law. A Boston federal grand jury indicted McGinnis, B. & M. President Daniel A. Benson, Vice President George F. Glacy and a railroad equipment broker named Henry Mersey, charging that they had engineered kickbacks in the sale of B. & M. surplus cars. In 1958, the indictment charged, another railroad broker offered $500,000 for ten passenger and baggage cars that B. & M. wanted to sell. Pat McGinnis blocked the sale. Instead, the B. & M. sold its cars to Mersey, whose office is in the same...
...belly than he does for Britain-the sort of waiter baiter who considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
SHERMAN FAIRCHILD JAMES A. FARLEY LOUIS FINKELSTEIN MORRIS FISHBEIN JOAN FONTAINE BENSON FORD HENRY FORD II FRANKLIN CLARK FRY G. KEITH FUNSTON