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...reasons, ranging from a knife in the back to a boot out the door. Last week one of the ad world's top executives resigned his $150,000-a-year post for what, as he stated it, was a rather different motive. Said Emerson Foote, 57, chairman of McCann-Erickson: "I will not have anything to do with any advertising agency which promotes the sale of cigarettes...
...advertising firm that Foote had helped to found-Foote, Cone & Belding-jolted fellow admen by resigning the $12 million-a-year American Tobacco business. Foote later left Foote, Cone & Belding, and landed in 1951 at McCann-Erickson, now the biggest agency in the world's largest advertising combine, Interpublic. A former chairman of the American Cancer Society's executive committee, he gave up chain-smoking five years ago. This year he was appointed to the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke. Now he hopes to work for anti-cigarette causes "as a volunteer propagandist...
...main pressure on the legislature to retain the plans for the underpasses is coming from two Democratic Cambridge representatives: State Sen. Francis X. McCann, the sponsor of the original underpass bill, and Rep. John Toomey, chair man of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the House. McCann has charged that opponents of the underpasses are really trying to ruin him politically...
RADCLIFFE by David Storey. 376 pages. Coward-McCann...
Hayes revealed that the city council may take action to minimize the number of evictions the expressway will cause. Agreeing with McCann that it was now inevitable that the highways would enter Cambridge, he said he was studying a scheme that would save well over a thousand families from eviction...