Word: madison
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MOST WELCOME NEW RESTAURANT CONCEPT Smaller prices for smaller portions has been the dream of delicate eaters for years. Now large and small portions at large and small prices are being offered by Woods on Madison Avenue in New ! York City, Gordon in Chicago and the Seventh Street Bistro in Los Angeles. Others plan to follow...
...fanfare on Madison Avenue was deafening last spring when the two largest advertising mergers in history were announced within two weeks of each other. The power of the newly created superagencies and the vast riches that changed hands in the transactions stunned the ad industry for weeks. The first jolt was the three-way agreement in April to merge the sixth largest U.S. agency, BBDO International, with Doyle Dane Bernbach Group (No. 12) and Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16). Their combined annual billings of $5 billion made the new agency, now called Omnicom Group, the world's biggest...
...Pillsbury. The damages at Saatchi & Saatchi/Ted Bates have totaled more than $300 million; among the clients who canceled accounts were Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert. While both agencies claim that they can absorb those losses without severe stress, the exodus of blue-chip clients has quickly soured Madison Avenue's merger mood...
...such good shape. Her weight seesawed through high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, where she majored in biochemistry. But when she went for a master's degree in science writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and did a two-year stint at the Minneapolis Tribune, the move proved personally disastrous. "I wasn't used to Midwestern reticence," says the voluble Brody. "I felt very isolated and different. So I turned to food." Eventually she ballooned to 140 lbs., and there she floated until a kind...
...began dragging men in off the street, the new city's normally tolerant commissioners had her removed. When that British rascal Rear Admiral George Cockburn broke into the White House with 150 of his sailors on Aug. 24, 1814, they ate the dinner prepared for James and Dolley Madison, who had fled. Then, before firing the place, Cockburn claimed a chair cushion, declaring that it would help him remember Mrs. Madison's seat. The remark was considered so risque it was not printed for years...