Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Parnelli Jones, 35, ace racing driver, winner of the 1963 Indianapolis 500 and by his own estimate "a few hundred" other races, and Judy Thompson Jones, 27: their first child, a boy; in Torrance, Calif...
Essentially, the show is "The Princess and the Pea" seen through the jaundiced eyes of three professional comedy writers--Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller...
...Seymour outlined two primary goals when he became president of J. Walter Thompson Co. five years ago. A onetime radio announcer, Seymour emphasized that he intended to safeguard those factors-particularly talent-that have helped 105-year-old J.W.T. become the world's biggest advertising agency. He would also strive, he said, to acquire new "tools" and people to enable it to grow still further...
...accounts of two big-billing brewers, Hamm's of St. Paul and Guinness of England. A majority of clients have been with the agency for 20 years or more, and its employees have an average tenure of seven years, which is a long time by Madison Avenue standards. Thompson has increased its billings by 36% in the past five years. In 1968, they went up a record $47.6 million-more than the total billings of all but the top 30 of the nation's ad agencies...
...dealer, Bill Miller graduated from law school at the University of California in Berkeley. He was plucked from a job with a Wall Street law firm in 1956 by Textron's flamboyant founder, Royal Little. When Little retired four years later, Miller stepped into the presidency under Chairman Rupert Thompson, 63, an imaginative ex-banker. Thompson, a major stockholder, built Textron into New England's second largest company (after United Aircraft) before he turned over his chief executive's title to Miller a year...