Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of Wall Street publicity is simply old-fashioned drum beating: one West Coast company annually sends its executives east on a speaking tour, mothered by their public-relations men. "By watching the stock tape," says New York Times Financial Writer Burton Crane, "I can usually tell how far east they've reached. About the time they reach Cincinnati, the stock starts jumping and keeps rising until they get to New York." The good word is often spread through press conferences, news releases, well-written company reports. These devices do not bring any protest from the stock exchanges; what...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, some fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography, and an expert performance by Richard Burton...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, a few fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography and an expert performance by Richard Burton...
...desperate, as its more serious scenes seem faint. And in time Julie Andrews, however engaging, seems no Guinevere, as Robert Goulet, however nice his voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur with a touch of inwardness beyond the call of musicomedy duty, alone ever seems three-dimensional-which only stresses how pasteboard are all the others and un-Arthurian is everything else...
Cuties & Cold Cuts. The vogue was started by Burt Browne, 55, president of Burton Browne Advertising ($5,000,000 a year in billings, mostly in electronics accounts), who declares he is "the only saloonkeeper in the country listed in Who's Who, the Social Register and Dun & Bradstreet." In 1941, needing a place to entertain the "advertising manager from Seattle after feeding him a steak and three martinis," Browne converted a small office adjoining his agency into the Sundown Room, equipped it with a bar and attractive barmaid. Soon the Sundown Room became such a popular gathering place...