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...self-respecting picturemaker would ever want to work for your company," Old Friend Billy Wilder wired. "The sooner the bulldozers raze your studio, the better it will be for the industry." Elizabeth Taylor, ailing in Paris with a throat infection, managed to whisper "disgraceful, degrading, particularly humiliating. Mr. Mankiewicz took over when
...Like Cutting Your Throat." Pennsylvania's economic ailments are a ready-made issue for a challenger, and Scranton is making the most of this issue. "The other states are getting ahead of us," he stresses in speech after speech. "They're getting ahead of us in their economy; they're growing faster; they have more jobs; their people are making more money. We are going behind and drifting. And it's all because the last administration has been handled on a power-politics basis and for political purposes primarily, and not as a service...
Similarly, Dilworth is too smart to mention specific increases, says candidly: "That would be like cutting your own throat." His main pitch has been to point to his own really outstanding record in revitalizing Philadelphia. He also fends off any ties to the Lawrence administration. "This state has been inflicted for years with miserable state governments," says Dilworth. "It's been the history of this state to load up the payroll with political hacks who got miserable salaries and stole the rest...
...Madison Avenue: it is a combination of Sydney Greenstreet bullying Clark Gable in The Hucksters and Rock Hudson seducing Doris Day in Lover Come Back. In the public mind, the advertising business is firmly established as a grey-flannel world of three-Gibson lunches, three-button jackets, unabashed throat slicing and zany argot ("Let's smear some of this on the cat and see if she licks...
...clutch of newsmen. The tough, quick-thinking, steel-trap lawyer is NBC's Sam Benedict, played by Edmond O'Brien with sheer nervous drive, solving ten cases an hour, picking up phones, barking, slamming them down, dictating letters at 200 words a minute, grabbing punks by the throat, and so on. Statistically, a man like that ought to have a nervous breakdown at least once a week...