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Pondering "the metamorphosis of a press secretary into a vice president of a network," ABC News Overseer James Hagerty, 52, catalogued his altered preoccupations since leaving Dwight Eisenhower's employ: "My foreign policy-establishment of peaceful coexistence with Madison Avenue. My complex of domestic problems-Huntley-Brinkley and Doug Edwards. My economy at home-cost control. And the awesome question of war and peace-Newton Minow...
...German section, Yorkville fine place to go for an evening. If you walk east on 86th, from Madison to Second Ave., you will find more than twenty beer halls and lokals. A lokal is any drinking place with music but distinguished by the characteristics that, a la allemande, young girls come there, usually in pairs, to find someone to dance with. The Lorelei is fairly typical. There is good beer, a band and, if you know the language and follow some local customs, it can be a lot of fun. Most important to remember: if you want to dance with...
...long past time that modern business practice was applied to the important matter of the author's image ("image" in Madison Avenue's lexicon means what the public thinks about a person or corporation when it is not thinking very hard). Up to now, authors' images have been left, hit or miss, to book jacket eulogists and to the authors themselves...
...Barnum (1810-91): "How were the circus receipts today at Madison Square Garden...
Brant can still whack out a crackling paragraph in the style of his old newspaper days. But in his sixth volume, as in the previous five, he smothers this talent by his pack-rat compulsion to drag in everything pertaining to Madison and his times, no matter how deadening it may be. Even so, the main weakness of his final book is Madison himself, who was far too small a man for the heroic role that Brant would have him play. At times, in fact, even Author Irving Brant seems to forget about little Jemmy, as page after page goes...