Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALKING HAPPY-singing brightly, dancing spritely, clapping loudly. A sort of My Fair Laddie, with British Beguiler Norman Wisdom as a Lancashire boatmaker who starts out so far below the stairs that he arrives onstage via a trapdoor...
WALKING HAPPY is an amiable amble through a Dickensian landscape breezily propelled by moving sets, spirited choreography, and a beguiling zephyr named Norman Wisdom who, as a "my fair laddie," is a bootmaker lifted out of the lower classes by his shoestrings...
Harper & Row, something of a Kennedy "house," was chosen to be the publisher. Harper Executive Vice President Evan W. Thomas II, son of quadrennial Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas, had edited Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bobby's The Enemy Within, ex-Presidential Speechwriter Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy. Thomas foresaw trouble, at first declined the offer to edit and publish the book. But Bobby finally persuaded him. All profits after the first printing were to go to the John F. Kennedy Library at Harvard. Manchester got an advance of less than $50,000 for expenses from...
Thompson's newcomers include such groups as American Machine & Foundry, the American Gas Association, Rolex watches, a line of Mennen Co. deodorants, talcum and after-shave lotion, and Carte Blanche credit cards. In a joint post-meeting statement, Chairman Norman H. Strouse and President Dan Seymour noted that the No. 1 agency in the U.S. is also assuming global proportions. "We have added new business this year," they said, "in every part of the world." And so they have. Combining Yankee know-how with local offices, the agency will now promote Gillette, Listerine, Singer, De Beers diamonds and Dunlop...
...exceedingly competent editors. Albert Erskine Jr., 55, was Faulkner's editor, now handles John O'Hara and James Michener. Jason Epstein, 38, is in charge of W. H. Auden and Norman O. Brown. Epstein surveys his duties with cynical modesty. "You're just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical...