Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grey Flannel Suit is a long movie and one worth seeing. Its subject, the great Madison Avenue of high-pressure public relations, is tricky and almost impossible to describe without loading the dice. Passing up most of the opportunities for cute, crude humor, the movie makes a skillful attempt to give a straight treatment to Madison Avenue and its progeny...
...spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...
Suffocating Clutter. In 20 years the clutter in Opera News's office on Manhattan's Madison Ave. has grown to the point of suffocation-fading autographed photos of opera stars cover the walls, documents stuff ancient filing cabinets. Editor Peltz's green tin lunchbox sinks into a deeper litter of folders and memos each day, as she tackles the problems of writing about an opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every...
...candlepower to brighten any mother's eye as he starred in his own Bob Cummings Show (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS), made a guest appearance with Perry Como, and played host (with his children: Robert, 10, and Melinda, 8) on CBS's Circus Highlights from Madison Square Garden...
Circus Highlights (Tues. 7:30 p.m., CBS). From Madison Square Garden, with Robert Cummings...