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...adman is only as good as his latest ideas, and when he runs out of them, he walks the plank. Usually the agency boss does not like to do the firing himself, so he appoints a "killer" for the job. Of the killers, Delia Femina says: "In a lot of ways they're very much like the hit guys in the Mafia." At the big Ted Bates agency recently, "the retirement party for the killer was marvelous. Practically the whole agency showed...
Some of the episodes are already familiar: the mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
...radical minority at the conference rightfully pointed out that the dilute, artificially isolated, one plank platform ignores the only pocket of anti-war sentiment with the practical power to end the war. The unrest of industrial labor has done much more to threaten the war effort than the cumulative activity of the movement. The war can be prosecuted against the wishes of the people and the militant mobilization of the least economically integrated stratum, i. e., the students. But it cannot continue without the munitions, medicine, food, clothing, machines, and transportation facilities that are made and serviced by the working...
...torn limb from limb by Thracian women infuriated at his single-minded love for Eurydice; his severed head, still singing, floated down the river Hebrus. To recall this macabre event, Boghosian mounted a wooden doll's head that had been wrenched from its body onto a weathered plank from an old snip's hull. To suggest Orpheus' irrevocable loss of Eurydice, he set a delicately featured mask inside a fluted fireplace ornament, forever out of reach of a single outstretched hand...
...Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated the Mentor. But lo! Half-a-head sprang-up to replace the one that fell...