Word: thompson
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...Simon has all the right ideas, looks the part, and cries out only for a little more poise. As Hedy, Beverly Fanger has somewhat too much poise and wants only a little restraint. A lesson to both of them, and to would be comediennes the world over, is Shannon Thompson, miscast but happily so as Smitty...
...coach Seamus Malin '62 and Bruce Johnstone '62 scored in the second period to put the alumni in the lead 2-1. Late in the same period Samuel Thompson '65 capitalized on a Crimson defensive lapse to tally the go-ahead goal. Bill Shaefer '67 added the final alumni goal in the third period...
About 40 advertising agencies are likely to do business in the new medium, including U.S.-owned J. Walter Thompson, Young & Rubicam and BBDO. But the two top French advertisers, Publicis and Havas-Conseil, are well in front. Both have had much experience making advertising shorts that are shown in French movie theaters. "U.S. TV commercials are ahead of us by 20 years as far as techniques and methods are concerned," says Eric Lipmann, a top Publicis adman. "From a creative, artistic point of view, though, we are equals. Besides, we can make our films far more cheaply." Primarily because...
...other facet of this situation is what James Thompson convincingly described, in his Atlantic article, as the "effectiveness trap." This is surely one of the most apparent failings of academics when it comes to dealing with the federal government. Virtually everyone is paralyzed by the desire to retain influence and effectiveness; and for many this activity becomes a consuming need, far more important than sorting out rights and wrongs. No one is willing to commit himself morally because that might short-circuit his links with the power center in Washington. It is difficult to decide whether these people are prevented...
...Avenue,' " he said, "are in reality disguised attacks on our free-enterprise system itself." Within the industry, Strouse made many other speeches, and there his message was different. Advertising might not be immoral or wasteful, but he conceded that some of it-not, of course, from J. Walter Thompson-was too often brassy and offensive. "Every single advertisement," he insisted, "must win its own right to intrude...