Word: femina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, Della Femina...
...From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, Delia Femina...
...adman is only as good as his latest ideas, and when he runs out of them, he walks the plank. Usually the agency boss does not like to do the firing himself, so he appoints a "killer" for the job. Of the killers, Delia Femina says: "In a lot of ways they're very much like the hit guys in the Mafia." At the big Ted Bates agency recently, "the retirement party for the killer was marvelous. Practically the whole agency showed...
...financially troubled agency had an area known as the "Floor of Forgotten Men," to which it assigned high-salaried managers who were working out their contracts before being let go. "None of them ever admitted that he was one of the fired people," writes Delia Femina, "but they never had a secretary or anything. They were walking around, but they were zombies...
...unlike baseball. You've got about seven, eight, or maybe nine years when you're hot and everything you do works and they're calling you for a job and the headhunters are crying for you, and then there's that long downhill slide." Delia Femina is still at the top of his form, but if he should ever get that sinking feeling, the royalties from his gossipy book might provide a retirement fund...