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...mostly young, Europe-trained admen who have formed their own small firms. Advertising executives expect some agencies to become victims of the change. "The old-established middle-sized agencies are in the most trouble," says Jeremy Bullmore a director of J. Walter Thompson in London. "The ones that will prosper are the international full-service agencies and the small nimble ones that can generate excitement...
America has been spoken of as a melting pot, but in truth it is not. Our nation has prospered and survived because different peoples while maintaining their own identity have been able to live peacefully and to prosper peacefully side by side...
Thus: the children to the motherly, that they prosper...
...Supply. To prosper in such a trade requires the proper sort of acquaintances, and Dice Dawson made them. The Fox & Hounds Inn, an expensive restaurant he operated until last October in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., attracted prominent representatives of the sports world as well as the flush, sedentary set. While Jerome Cavanagh was mayor of Detroit, Dice occasionally dined at the mayoral residence. All the while, he seemed impervious to the normal hazards of his line of work. Local authorities were no problem, explained one federal official. "A policeman would see the people around Dawson-sports celebrities, the mayor, millionaires...
...bring about such reforms, as well as to prosper politically, Smith made use of his own boundless energy and still legendary powers of persuasion and phrasemaking. "I could run on a Chinese laundry ticket and beat your bunch any time," he once snapped at a hostile Democratic boss. He also could call on quite extraordinary mental abilities -among them a phenomenal memory for detail and a dazzling intuitive grasp of administrative structures...