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...snappy bulletins from the executive suite, and Curtis had a brash new tone of voice. After weeks of rumor, Culligan's appointment to the job (TIME. July 6) was no surprise; it came as an unmistakable acknowledgment of Curtis' need for a new and nourishing rapport with Madison Avenue...
...psychotic." At 44, Culligan has seldom spent more than two years at any job, but his resume is impressive all the same: time and again he has breezed through energetic sales campaigns that have brought anemic magazines and television programs safely into the black. In 15 years on the Madison Avenue beat (with Hearst, NBC and, most recently, Interpublic, Inc., parent corporation of McCann, Erickson), New York-born Culligan has acquired an unshakable reputation as "a tiger of a salesman" and a gifted executive...
...A.M.A. hierarchy, is far and away its most fluent, articulate and persuasive spokesman. A debater since college days, he recently proved his mettle against such platform opponents as Labor Leader Walter Reuther and Senator Hubert Humphrey. Last May he made the televised speech rebutting President Kennedy's Madison Square Garden appeal for a social-security-financed medicare bill. In the year before he assumes the A.M.A.'s presidency. Dr. Annis will wield great influence as president-elect...
Toupees, Tints. One of the poshest tonsorial emporiums in Manhattan is "Christopher Joyce," on Madison Avenue...
...former vice president of the National Broadcasting Co. (where he turned the Today and Tonight shows into moneymakers), Culligan could lead Curtis to a new rapport with Madison Avenue-a necessary ingredient in any improvement at Curtis. Said one advertising executive: "Culligan is a tiger of a salesman." Faint Hope. Curtis is in desperate need of a tiger. In the past year, the company has experimented with a variety of schemes the family had traditionally opposed. The sacred subscription lists of its five magazines (the Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack and Jill) have recently been...