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Robert Downey is a filmmaker. He wrote and directed Putney Swope, a film which shows us how a cabal of black militants function in a Madison Avenue advertising agency. When this review is published, I will send it to the office where everyone who reviews Putney Swope sends their reviews. That office is on Madison Avenue...
...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...
Outside Advice. There are also some promising newcomers. Three that have done well are Seattle's Liberty Bank, Kansas City's Swope Parkway National Bank and Boston's Unity Bank and Trust Co. All were started only last year, riding the wave of black consciousness. All got support from white bankers or businessmen...
...sentiments are echoed by La-Vannes C. Squires, 38, president of Kansas City's Swope Parkway National. The black-owned bank is "a major psychological need for the Negro, particularly the young," he says. Set up last July, Swope Parkway now has more than $3,000,000 in accounts...
...Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says, an impossible job, but he cherishes his years at The World more than any others in his long career. He found constant stimulation in working with such World staffers...