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Best of all, "the students basically educated each other. Everyone cared tremendously about finding out what was really true. It was by defending everything and fighting it out in the lab that you learned." And in the idyllic lake country around Madison, work merged with play. They were all ardent hikers, picnickers and skate sailors; Polly used to skate with a sail made of an old agricultural exhibit sign reading IT PAYS TO FEED THE CALF WHOLE MILK...
NCAA Football (ABC, from 3:15). Ohio State v. Wisconsin, at Madison...
...Madison Avenue Mutation. A great many U.S. Congressmen send newsletters home to their constituents. From Manhattan's Wall Street, and from the financial quarters of other U.S. cities, pour market newsletters by the hundreds, if not thousands, most of them free. Rare is the big bank that does not publish a newsletter; New York's First National City Bank has been distributing one since 1904, for a readership that now embraces college students, housewives, small children and Latin Americans (separate Spanish and Portuguese editions) as well as financiers and businessmen. House organs, especially those produced by Madison Avenue...
...more common on Madison Avenue than the critics are the admen who testily resent inside or outside criticism of their trade. "The eggheads dislike businessmen, the eggheads dislike advertising," snorts Rosser Reeves, chairman of hard-sell Ted Bates & Co. Says Walter Guild, president of San Francisco's Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli, the ad agency for the Kennedy election campaign: "If Toynbee wants to make his own toothpaste and his wife wants to sew her own brassières. O.K. He's just using advertising as a focal point to criticize our entire economic system...
...Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...