Word: mavericks
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...movie, A Countess from Hong Kong; helped Pierre Salinger, a sometime political foe, plug both his employer (Continental Airlines) and his book (With Kennedy). Each guest-the first two shows included Comedian George Jessel, Actor Hans Conried and sundry starlets-walked off with an autographed copy of Maverick Mayor, a 256-page Yorty biography...
...Thus did Maverick Levin and Incumbent O'Brien bring their hotly contested struggle for the control of MGM to a face-to-face showdown. During the months that it has raged, the battle has touched off at least six court suits, embroiled filmdom's leading producers, actors and exhibitors, and brought on a barrage of proxy-seeking entreaties that cost the two sides well over $500,000 between them. After the company's raucous four-hour annual meeting ended, the slow process of tallying up the votes of its shareowners finally got under way. The results...
...agency-the man being Cone. As the top copy disciplinarian, Cone constantly emphasized that an ad should be a clear, simple "substitute for talking to someone." He shunned both whimsy and the knuckle-hard TV sell. As an account man, his ability to hold on to such maverick clients as Hallmark Cards' Joyce Hall became legendary. Publicly, Cone emerged as the most respected scold of the industry. He once scourged the "tasteless people" in advertising as the "miserable, crawly two or three per cent who represent the advertising horn of our dilemma...
...again with a lieutenant governor who wants to use the position as a stepping-stone to the governorship. The plight of DFL's intellectual aristocracy is even worse though, for if the Democrats win, leadership of what once was a potent arm of liberalism will fall to a crochety maverick they tried to repudiate and an opportunist they throoughly mistrust
...Decibel Gap. By contrast with Maverick Shapp, Yale-trained Attorney Shafer is a dutiful, if undistinguished, party pro; he served two terms as a state senator before running with William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts...