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Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. The father of soap operas, schoolgirl complexions and singing commercials is given his zestful due in this lively, anecdoteladen biography of the late Albert Lasker, the most formidable ad anthropos in Madison Avenue history...
Taken at the Flood, by John Gunther. A friend's excellent biography of the late Albert Lasker, the Madison Avenue pioneer who invented "That School Girl Complexion," dominated U.S. advertising, and cut the pattern for its grey-flannel suit...
...advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine and affectionate biography John Gunther has gone far to display Lasker for the first time...
Noble in Purpose. The clash of tastes is sometimes painful on both sides. A Madison Avenue adman, opening the door to one of the Row's austerer shrines, took one look and fled-"I thought maybe I had to be elected." One cutter, gingerly removing a Brooks Brothers jacket from a customer, murmured reproachfully: "Not, I think, one of ours, sir." But despite the awesome atmosphere and the great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave...
...November could tell whether, as Anderson hoped, the voters would bless the Republicans for the surplus-or whether, as an aftermath of big spending promises made during the campaign, the surplus might some day wind up in the Smithsonian with such artifacts of the good old days as Dolley Madison's inauguration gown and the Spirit of St. Louis...