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...Advertising is a marvelous field for women. They have a warm personal approach and a concern for things that is very valuable. And there is certainly no gender in ideas." The speaker, not surprisingly, was a woman: Margot Sherman, 48, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., named last week, by the Advertising Federation of America, as Advertising Woman of the Year...
Margot (born Alice Martha) Sherman started out as a newspaper reporter after graduating from the University of Michigan, joined McCann-Erickson in 1936 because "what I really liked was persuading people." Her flair for entertaining copy made her a top creative writer, earned a vice-presidency in 1949. Today she wears three hats. She is chairman of the Creative Plans Board, administrative director of the 300-man Creative Division, and takes a hand in the development of talent in the agency's training program. Even more important is a fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles...
...president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat-footed by rejoining McCann-Erickson, from which he resigned as executive vice president 14 months ago. Returning as a director, senior vice president and member of the operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world...
Byron Johnson came on in relief only to be greeted by a scorching line drive down the third base line which Bergantino speared. In the fourth inning, Erickson had blasted a home run into the deepest reaches of left field...
...McCANN-ERICKSON, which captured G.M.'s $24 million Buick ad account (TIME, Feb. 24), will also get company's $3,000,000 G.M.C. truck and motor coach billings. Detroit's Campbell-Ewald agency is favored to hook G.M.'s still-open Frigidaire account...