Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crazy like Napoleon. Margaux has picked up the fashion world and wrapped it round her little finger; she has tamed the press and subdued Madison Avenue. "It's like a fairy tale," she agrees. "But blah blah, woof woof, as Jimi Hendrix used to say." Says Miss Mary, Ernest Hemingway's widow (and Margaux's step-grandmother): "She was such a nice healthy kid, I hope nothing spoils her, natch." About her publicity-hating grandfather, Margaux is admiringly respectful, exulting: "Grandpa's spirit's in my marrow." But she prefers people to realize that...
Gliding Down. Vaulter Smith, 23, has had a tougher climb to the top. He joined the pro tour last year to compete head to head with Old Rival Bob Seagren. He has since taken Seagren twelve out of 18 times. And at Madison Square Garden the last week in May, Smith soared 18 ft. 5 in., exceeding by an inch his own world indoor mark...
...going to make a revolution, you're got to advertise," one alumnus said, choking slightly as he addressed a former classmate who now works on. Madison Ave. It was hard to tell if his difficulty speaking was the result of an excess of tongue in his cheek, or whether he was merely gagging on the rather dry sand, wiches that had been provided for the occasion...
...every time the tigress of the Today show tried to collect, some international crisis intervened. "I kept trying to find out when, when, when," she recalls. Last week she found out. Kissinger agreed to sit still for more than an hour in the State Department's handsome Madison Room, and chunks of Walters' revealing taped interview with him appeared on Today for four consecutive mornings...
...than making a dramatic stand or picking a controversial issue to make a scientist visible. Most of the scientists that Goodell studied are masters of the art of mass communications and are frequently sought out and publicized by the press. Paul Ehrlich, for example, admits that he is using Madison Avenue techniques to sell the public on halting the population explosion. "If they can sell flavored douches," he says, "we can sell anything...