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DAVID M. LITTIG Madison...
...ratings was given at a special FCC hearing in Manhattan. The commission was collecting the views of "a number of persons who are actively engaged in the creation, production, writing, casting, sale and licensing of programs." Their recommendations were not revolutionary-tighten licensing requirements, weed out the Madison Avenue orchids-but the testimony was considerably more entertaining than most TV fare...
...Clay, the only Representative to serve as Speaker from his first through last day in the House, ran up a record of eight years, 136½ days under two Presidents. His tenure was interrupted in 1814-15, when he was sent abroad by Madison to end the War of 1812, and from 1821 to 1823 during the Monroe Administration, when he quit to resume law practice. In 1825, Kentucky's "Great Compromiser" left the House for good to become John Quincy Adams' Secretary of State...
Died. Duane Jones, 63, Madison Avenue's "box-top king," the master merchandiser who first made soap-wrapper premiums and box tops into sales gimmicks; of a stroke; in Norwalk, Conn. In 1952, while president of the Manhattan agency bearing his name, Jones sued nine ex-executives who had defected with his major accounts, won a landmark $300,000, which he planned to donate to the University of Pennsylvania to establish a chair in business ethics...
This is the latest exposition of U.S. fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...