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Among the matters they were most critical of were press stories about them, which were "Madison Avenue-like, full of goodies. Trying to sell someone the moon...
Written and acted by various members of the company, the nineteen sketches in the revue were imaginatively conceived and, for the most part, consistently well-presented. The most amusing piece depicted the six members of the cast promoting national policy in Madison Avenue advertising terms: disarmament ("Its so disarming"), democracy, and civil rights ("The new civil rights, with PL49, acts as an invisible shield against racial discrimination...
...WARDLAW Madison...
...there was nothing startlingly new in Labor's promises-or, for that matter, in the Tories' copy-many Britons were astonished that the socialists had taken any advertising at all. After the 1959 election campaign, Laborites thundered that the Tories' ad agency had used "Madison Avenue methods" to "sell Macmillan like a detergent...
From his circular penthouse office on Madison Avenue, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf frequently sallies out on a limb, leaving all his competitors and creditors agape with suspense. For years, people have been expecting Zeckendorf to take a tumble, though he has always managed to regain his balance. Recently, though, Zeckendorf's balancing act has been getting more and more precarious. Last week the Alleghany Corp, complained that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc, had failed to pay it $570,000 in back rent on some Denver properties, and rotund Bill Zeckendorf, 57, admitted that his $400 million...