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...Dogcatcher. Parker is proud to style himself the "Imperial Potentate" of American snowmen, proclaims solemnly: "One never snows anyone other than to do good; never take advantage of anyone that you have been able to snow under." Much of the snow these days comes from his office in his Madison, Tenn. home-which is wedged between a gas station and a used-car lot-where the Colonel keeps fresh the country touch. He and his wife have no children, give most of their time to a large garden, once kept a string of ponies and rented them...
...cuts in the accounting department, things could hardly be better: circulation is up 81,500, to 427,000, since Ross died. The sophistication that used to be found in the wit of contributors has been successfully transferred to the advertising pages, which are the glittering showcase of the Madison Avenue specialty shop, inhabited by more Virginia hams and truffled pate, glittering gems and vintage brandies than any other major magazine. Last year's $17,751,924 gross and $1,985,785 profit set alltime records, and one share of New Yorker stock, valued at $30 in 1925, is worth...
Died. Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick, 70, longtime (1933-55) showman-president of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Yale football great and All America ('09-'10), Kilpatrick was on the AEF general staff in World War I, commander of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II, won a proxy fight for control of the languishing Garden...
...Great Britain is a land of rare roast beef and rich Stilton cheese, fox hunts and elegant cars, castles and thatched cottages. It is peopled by snobby, sophisticated men who wear tweeds, raincoats and aloof looks. They drink only tea, Scotch, sherry, or gin and tonic. Such is Madison Avenue's image of Great Britain, and to many an Englishman it is "offensive and often unimpressive." So charged the London Economist last week in a critique of U.S. efforts to sell Britain and its wares. "The image that emerges." said the Economist, "is of distinctly pre-war vintage"; even...
Maybe down South and out West it is called the "Madison," but up in Harlem it is called "Mashed Potato...