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...file. A band of Bagwell campaigners swoop down at shift-break time. The men are orange-shirted and the women are orange-skirted, and each uniform is stamped BAGWELL FOR GOVERNOR in black. (Highly visible orange and black are "this year's colors" for campaigners, so a Madison Avenue firm advised.) They wave orange balloons and they pass out orange matchbooks. An accordionist plays When the Saints Go Marching In or Show Me the Way to go Home-depending upon whether the workers are coming or going. Three Negro campaigners take on the Negroes among the plant workers...
...belong" and "adjust," surely not to change or reform the society. But where has this led? Patriotism is feeble. The best people, says Goodman, are not turning back--like Plato's philosopher who has emerged from the case--to serve their country. So boys listen to speeches written on Madison Avenue, and they have not yet learned to cry, "Shame! make your own speech at least...
...Angeles, the existing machinery was dismayingly rundown. There were complaints of communication failure with GHQ. Supplies of campaign literature, buttons, bumper stickers were short. In Los Angeles Democrats complained that they had not received enough of the official campaign manuals to distribute to even the top officials-and in Madison, Wis. playgrounds Kennedy buttons were rare enough to net ten Nixon buttons in return. The ironic truth: Multimillionaire Kennedy and his family could legally contribute no more campaign funds...
...politicians have given us two candidates that meet motivational research standards of offending few people, of having good television personalities, of having presentable families, of agreeing on most problems facing our country. If neither the Madison Avenue-modeled Nixon nor the family-owned Kennedy production gets us excited, then we may give the politicians in Congress the chance to pick our President. Motivational research gave us the Edsel. An honest wish to meet the needs of our country gave us the Ford...
Critic Crosby stuck to his guns, bolstered by Madison Avenue critics who claim that 1) network profits have indeed fallen off over the last few years; 2) in their pro tests and handsome profit claims, the harried executives were evidently referring to the entire NBC company with all its properties-notably the money-coining owned-and-operated stations-to disguise the poorer returns from the network operation as such. "I will now retire from the financial page," said Crosby, "but, by God, I am right. The real point I was trying to make in that column was that being mediocre...