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...Highlands Since Time Immemorial, by Joanna Ostrow. The story of a Belfast boy in the remote Scottish highlands makes an exotic, lyrical first novel...
...unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...
...Clean, Mr. Clean. Ostrow is dubious about the noncommercial value of commercials ("I don't think they can become part of the literature"), and Songwriter Rome, who once wrote something for Sanka, is even less enthusiastic: "I can't get any emotion into Sanka coffee...
...Ostrow and Rome are, naturally, wrong. Society Bandleader Lester Lanin noticed not long ago that the well-bred teen-agers at his deb parties had begun to ask him to play the Mr. Clean song (composer: Adman Thomas Cadden) or the Newport cigarette cha cha cha. Last week Lanin, who has made a career of knowing where the money is, announced the title of his next long-playing record: Lester Lanin on Madison Avenue, jingle tunes without words, played at our-song tempo...
Presenting the case for the Marshall Club will be oralists William A. Carroll and Richard A. Myren. Of Council on the Brief, are Robert B. Hudson, Rodney W. Loeb, Stanley V. Ostrow, and Floyd Wilkins...