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...ROBERT BROOK...
Whatever their approach, truly original ads are so few that they are quickly copied. The bulk of menthol cigarette ads-a boy, a girl (shoeless) and a babbling brook-are virtually indistinguishable. Often, too. the less expensive or distinctive a product is, the more pretentiously it is advertised-which leads admen to argue whether it is good salesmanship to make a snob appeal for a non-snob product. The most notable voice raised in opposition is that of Fairfax Cone of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding agency, who argues that an ad should come as close as possible...
Just before a Senate adjournment: The moving finger writes, and the fortuities of politics will probably result in change of some faces when we return in January . . . Old faces go and new faces come, but somehow, like Tennyson's brook, the free Republic continues to go on with vitality, vigor and an energized faith, as it moves to newer heights and newer achievements for its people in the great moral climate of freedom ... So an revoir. We shall see you on the home diamond somewhere; and when it is all over, all the healing waters will somehow close over...
...Meadow Brook National Bank, which in only ten years has boosted its deposits 14-fold to $605 million and has now audaciously set up branches in Manhattan itself...
...Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists who, he says, display their...