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Rand's book begins with a belligerent introduction by a topflight fellow-designer, E. McKnight Kauffer, who thinks advertising art in the U.S. is "of the poorest quality" but makes an excep tion for Rand. The trouble with advertising art, Kauffer says, is "fright and [the] over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below...
Anne got her mother on the phone in Aurora, Ill., and announced importantly: "Mother, I have something to tell you. If you will tune in on February 3, you will hear Anne McKnight singing in opera under Toscanini...
This irritated Captain Wellings; in fact, he considered it an attack on his person and he called editor Smith down for the article in no uncertain terms. For a while it looked as though Smith might be kicked off the paper, but Dean Nicholas McD. McKnight and others intervened and the cooler heads prevailed...
Here's the situation as it stood at the end of Columbia's short summer season. In this Corner we have the boys kicked into the back room by the KCAC. They say independent collegiate journalism at Columbia has been dealt a death blow by Dean McKnight and his rubber-stamp "undergraduate" body, and they have a lot of allies among Columbia's student leaders...
Referee in the dispute will apparently be Dean McKnight, who grows purple when it is suggested that the Emergency Council is his rubber stamp. When Columbia's employees' union struck for higher pay and better working conditions the Spectator compared wage scales at other New York colleges and came out in support of the union. There are certain things which college administrative officials don't like to see in print. People are wondering whether McKnight will continue to use his weight to muzzle Spec...