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...coronary-inducing pace: 70-hour weeks are not unusual, and last year the average age of the men whose obituaries were published in Advertising Age was 61, v. 68 for executives in such related industries as publishing. In return, the admen are well paid. It is not uncommon for an adman with some talent and only five years' experience to enjoy a salary of $15,000 to $20.000-which is about 50% more than a man with similar assets can command in engineering or electronics. "Advertising." exults Marion Harper, who earns over $100,000 a year, "is an intellectual...
...COMEDIES: Elaine May (TIME, Sept. 26, 1960) has finally finished her long-fermented play. If it contains her own wild and uncommon brilliance, it will be superb. Called A Matter of Position, it is vaguely described as a protest against society. The star is her comic partner, Mike Nichols (Oct. 25). S. N. Behrman's Lord Pengo (Nov. 11) is an adaptation of his biography of Art Dealer Joseph Duveen, played by Charles Boyer. Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} has been tinkling with a French play about the wedding night of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Sidestepping...
Despite Dubinsky's bitter protests, "unions within unions" are not uncommon. They already exist among staff members of at least nine U.S. unions, including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Says the Electrical Workers' President James Carey: "As an employer, I believe in practicing what I preach...
...heads. Most will be married at 15, lie on their deathbeds at 40. Many peasants still drink from the filthy canals, scorning the "weak" water supplied by a new artesian well. Life is so cheap that a professional killer can be hired for ten dollars, and it is not uncommon to see a gunman walking casually down a dusty road holding a large, white sunshade in one hand and a gun in the other...
Shrewd Banker Wallenberg, however, has restricted himself to overseeing Ericsson's finances. To handle company operations, he brought in as president Sven Ture Aberg, 58, an imperturbable electrical engineer who negotiates with uncommon skill in five languages (Swedish, English, Spanish, French and German...