Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRACK: Varsity in National Amateur Athletic Union Track Meet at Madison Square Garden...
...rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
Foote has no definite plans yet, but says: "I lean toward my own business or a piece of a medium-size agency." No stranger to change, Maverick Foote in 1948 startled Madison Avenue by giving up American Tobacco's $12 million account-the fattest ever voluntarily relinquished-over a policy disagreement with its management, two years later left Foote, Cone & Belding, which he had helped found, and in 1951 joined McCann-Erickson...
This four-character play, thinly disguised as a novel, tells the story of a prodigal but unpenitent son. Charlie Morrow, a low man on the Madison Avenue totem pole, who has "always been so ready to be rich," drives up to Connecticut in a mortgaged Cadillac to hear the reading of his father's will. In the family law office, Charlie spends an idle 15 minutes making a conquest of Ellen, a pretty secretary, a girl who proves singularly susceptible to a combination of old jokes and rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will...
...goons who surrounded the steel factory where wages were worse than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left elbow...