Word: ulcerates
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...They love and understand him. Let's face it, he's got mass appeal." Ford works an eleven-hour work day on his five daytime shows (soon to be dropped by him) and single night entry without getting ruffled. "The only one around here who has an ulcer is the producer, and he brought it over with him from the Gobel show," says an associate. "I don't think being all strung up like a cornstalk fiddle helps," explains Ernie...
...president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, genial, roughhewn Bernard Cornelius Duffy, 55, is a rare figure in the advertising world. Title to rarity: he has nearly quadrupled BBDO's billings (now $200 million), while showing remarkable personal stamina in the process. He pulled through a serious ulcer operation in which two-thirds of his stomach was cut away, and a coronary attack, bounced back each time to supervise the fortunes of the growing agency. Last week, five months after he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage, Madison Avenue was wondering whether Ben Duffy could come back again...
...political trail, the last of the city bosses who went down before a combination of social services, prosperity, a more hardheaded electorate. He was soundly beaten in his last three mayoralty bids (the most recent in 1955), and last December narrowly survived an operation for a stomach ulcer. His final ambition: attaining the age of 125 in order to be able "to bury all my enemies...
...LOVING EYE, by. William Sansom (253 pp.; Reynal; $3.50) has a hero who, like Emmet Booth, is obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing...
...tired of it. Up to now I've been very, very careful not to make any criticism of any kind. But you reach a point sometimes-and this was it." Perhaps, she added, if she had reached it sooner she might not have had an ulcer...