Word: thompson
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...LOST CITY, by John Gunther. To those who remember the days of beats and journalistic feats in the '30s and '40s, Gunther's novel has enormous nostalgic value. The lost city is Vienna, and its dashing celebrants were U.S. correspondents as distinguished as Dorothy Thompson and Vincent Sheean assigned there just before the Anschluss...
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON Miami...
...much. Says Los Angeles' Sanford Weiner, who handles much of the local Republican advertising: "A political account takes three times the effort, three times the time, three times the wear and tear." Political accounts are rejected entirely by some agencies, notably the nation's biggest, J. Walter Thompson, which holds that they are short-term affairs, and might provoke criticism from the agency's commercial clients...
Golden Age. For Gunther, who arrived there in 1930, it also meant some pretty fast journalistic company. Such famed Vienna hands and visiting correspondents as Vincent Sheean, William L. Shirer, the New York Evening Post's roving Dorothy Thompson and its resident Balkanologist M. W. ("Mike") Fodor, I.N.S.'s H. R. Knickerbocker, the Chicago Daily News's Negley Farson-and many other now-legendary figures-were Gunther's cablehead competitors and constant café companions. Together, they zestfully created the profession and the mystique of the U.S. foreign correspondent, and built the by-lined reputations that...
Sharing this market are 2,000 U.S. school-supply firms. They include not only the oldtime school-supply special ists such as Rand McNally (maps) and Milton Bradley (art materials), but such prestigious newcomers as Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (language laboratories) and IBM (class scheduling). Their market is enormous: 41,500,000 elementary and secondary students, each of whom this year will need about $16 worth of pencils, papers, erasers and teaching materials...