Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectionist, perpetually unsatisfied editor, Burnett was inarticulate on the podium but superb on paper. Armed with a stubby black pencil, his hands and shirt often smudged with lead, he worked over copy until it passed his tough standards. His staff sometimes called him Leo the Lion-and not always affectionately. "I've seen him throw away campaigns that a client had accepted just because he had come up with a better idea," says Leonard Matthews, the agency's president. Burnett championed the "Chicago School of Advertising," which abhors slick promotions. He once told his staff: "We want...
...assistant director of Admissions, Leonard raised the number of blacks at the Law School to well over 100 or better than 15 per cent of the student body. Albert M. Sacks, Bok's successor as dean of the School, recently termed Leonard's handling of black admissions "a superb...
...language that was almost French when he arrived at Orly. London's Evening Standard slipped in a small tribute with the headline TED ET GEORGES: SUNSHINE FINALE. Meanwhile, at a blacktie dinner at the Elysée the first night, Pompidou toasted the Queen with a superb Dom Pérignon '64 champagne and noted: "Our views are sufficiently close that we may continue without pessimism...
...Harvard coach Loyal Park has tabbed two senior right-handers, Kelly and Phil Collins, to start in the crucial twin-bill. Kelly is the obvious choice for the opener coming off his superb shutout performance against Cornell to give Harvard the Eastern League title. Collins has a 6-1 record and, although tailing off as of late, came back to overpower B. U. last week and earn a starting...
Marathon Blast. Gan is not entirely without diversions. Its clear waters boil with bright tropical fish. Tuna can be caught from the pier, and fishing for shark and barracuda is superb. The island has a soccer field, golf course, assorted tennis and volleyball courts and no fewer than 21 bars. The specialty of the island is the "gozomie," a marathon blast that is thrown when anyone reaches the end of his nine-month tour and goes home. Over the five-day Christmas holiday, the men consumed 500 quarts of liquor, 12,500 bottles of beer, and 2,000 pints...