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...mask called Sudden Youth is a big seller at Jerry's barbershop on Madison Avenue, where the favorite tinting color is Banker's Grey and a new hair-styling by Jerry himself costs $25. About half of his clients are show biz; the rest are executives, and they are the ones that care. "A lot of actors don't worry about what they look like except when they're onstage," says Jerry. "But a businessman has to think about it all the time...
...Rush to Foo-Foo Juice. The new customers are not just Madison Avenue-niks and Wilshire Boulevardiers, who might be especially uninhibited about nurturing their masculine beauty. Men from Boston to Houston are sloshing themselves with expensive colognes and lotions as never before...
MILTON AVERY-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th St. First showing of the innocent etchings and woodcuts of an artist usually identified as a painter. Through Nov. 9. More Avery is on view at Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th St.-16 paintings, deceptively simple, cautiously colored, mostly agreeable. Through...
...Futurist Joseph Stella's death in 1946 fills two floors with his paintings, collages and drawings. Among 100 works is his most ambitious, New York Interpreted, a five-canvas panorama that glows with dark lapidary lights. Through Dec. 4. Complementing the retrospective, a show at Schoelkopf Gallery, 825 Madison Ave. at 69th St., offers paintings, gouaches, drawings and collages from all periods of Stella's career. Through...
...same educated intuition he uses to pick the ponies: "You look, sniff and close your eyes." His shop is approaching $30 million in annual billing, having just landed the Piel's Beer account and much of the Quaker Oats and U.S. Rubber business-a rare hat trick on Madison Avenue. Koenig still writes some drug and whisky ads himself and checks every word of copy that his agency produces but there are "no review committees and no big think sessions." At home in Westchester County, slight and balding Koenig reads "everything from Jean Genet to Edgar Rice Burroughs...