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...Beer and Warner Bros. At the same time, DDE picked up 14 new ones, including the Sylvania division of General Telephone & Electronics, Parker Pens and American Tourister Luggage. The net gain in billings was $10 million and DDB scarcely stopped to worry. Says Foote, Cone & Belding's Founder, Fairfax Cone: "We can have a cancellation tonight, without anyone batting an eye, of a $1,000,000 account. This means $150,-000 of gross income we had counted on that's gone, and there isn't a goddam thing we can do about...
...Minute. Although some admen, like Foote, Cone & Belding's Fairfax Cone, warn that "advertising should never be so much fun that it interferes with selling," the creative men are unquestionably having all the fun. One Madison Avenue recruiter complains that today a hard-up agency may "have to pay $50,000 to get a man worth $18,000." But says Richard Rich, 37, of Wells, Rich, Greene, "a minute on the air costs $50,000, and that is an enormous responsibility...
...switch in roles is only part of a gradual change in the use of U.S. Army units throughout Viet Nam. The U.S. 199th Brigade has been circling Saigon since December in an exclusively security operation named "Fairfax," which is designed to keep the Viet Cong from building up strength too near the capital. The brigade's search partners are not police but Vietnamese Rangers, working in completely integrated "supercompanies" made up of one U.S. and one Vietnamese com pany. The U.S. 9th Division is also involved in intermediate warfare, working closely with the ARVN's 25th Division...
...committee of seven trustees and seven professors had run through a list of 70 possible presidential candidates. But every time they met, explained Board Chairman Fairfax Cone, "all had the same candidate-Mr. Levi. He was our standard. No others matched that standard." A shy, unpretentious man who likes bow ties and fine cigars, Levi, 56, has employed a dry wit and a lawyer's tough logic in his pivotal task under Beadle: raiding other faculties of their top talent. An aristocratic intellectual who reads widely at jet-pace speed, Levi developed a rapport with academicians that neatly complemented...
...Dickinson) battle their way up through the syndicate hierarchy in pursuit of his $93,000, it turns out that the evil big shots seem neither to have been born in Sicily nor to be afflicted with five o'clock shadow, but bear such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving at his hideout, he grumbles that the shrubbery needs watering and the swimming pool is too cold, then expresses horror at Marvin's demand for the missing dough. "We don't handle actual cash...