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...balance, and often it is found wanting-a well-known fact that does the cause of religion no good. Last week the National Council of Churches, on the occasion of a television operetta on ethics, plugged a new idea for attacking this perennial problem. Its good grey flannel name: the Living Right...
...lawyer to the tax man to the agent to the press, and no matter what he looks like on the screen, his very best scenes had better be played at the bank. "The matinee idol of the Eisenhower era," cracked a Hollywood reporter, "is a man in a grey flannel suit...
...preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale fee-splitting. Every man in a grey flannel suit knows that no modern ad agency competes on price, but on quality of service and results...
...Janice Forester are contented with each other, their eleven-year-old daughter Polly and fate-that difficult headwaiter whom they have charmed into giving them the best table. Janice is a healthy model of housewifely efficiency. Tom is a grey flannel suitor of success who has $14,000 a year and the boss's ear to show for his efforts. His boss is a sexurbanite who keeps adding fresh blonde codicils to his own tattered, 30-year-old marriage contract. It is at the bottom of the boss's sunken garden that Tom meets Louise, an exotic fragment...
...businessman continued to be more hero than villain (although a little confused) in such novels as Cameron Hawley's Cash McCall and Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. It was perhaps significant of the relative absence of satire that so gentle a writer as J. P. Marquand emerged with the year's best American satirical novel. Sincerely, Willis Wayde, the derisive and sympathetic portrait of an eager-beaver businessman who so hotly wooed success that he unwittingly lost his decency during the courtship...