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...captured by what he chases," says Marion Harper, Jr., 46, chairman of Interpublic, the top block in the complex corporate structure that has grown out of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson agency. What hulking Marion Harper openly chases is Norman Strouse's crown as head of the biggest U.S. agency. Gifted with uncommon ability at convincing argument and a metabolism that enables him to step into a conference with a client daisy-fresh after 24 solid hours of work, Harper became president of McCann at 32. Since then he has personally won for his agency such accounts as Coca...
...resume is impressive all the same: time and again he has breezed through energetic sales campaigns that have brought anemic magazines and television programs safely into the black. In 15 years on the Madison Avenue beat (with Hearst, NBC and, most recently, Interpublic, Inc., parent corporation of McCann, Erickson), New York-born Culligan has acquired an unshakable reputation as "a tiger of a salesman" and a gifted executive...
...dismissal temporarily stalled any major deal until Curtis finds a new president. Last week the company was conducting a public search to fill the job, at a lower salary. Most likely candidate was Adman Matthew Culligan, 44, a director of Interpublic, Inc., the parent company of the McCann-Erickson advertising agency...
...Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...
Sure enough, Erickson's public professions were simply a cover for his secret activities as an Allied agent. Those activities, depicted with approximate accuracy in a novel by Alexander Klein, have now been cleverly rejiggered to produce an expert and expensive ($4,500,000) spy thriller. Written and directed by George (The Bridges at Toko-ri) Seaton, Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell...