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...years ago, high-domed U.S. thinkers liked to blame the nation's cultural deficiencies on conformity. Last week Adman Charles H. Brower, president of Manhattan's giant Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, trotted out another villain: "mediocrity." Speaking at a big advertising powwow in Florida, Brower declared that a lack of "greatness" is holding up national progress. He told his competitors: "Advertising in a climate of greatness will work harder. Fewer people will be annoyed by advertising . . . It will cease to be the whipping boy for every uninformed meathead and misinformed egghead and unsuccessful sorehead...
...late William Allen White observed while discussing the villain of this biography, that 20% of the people are permanently gullible. And it may be that White's figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...
From there on till near the end, The Best Man chronicles a pretty traditional struggle between a set hero and a set villain, and much of the play's interest lies in the sheer simplicity of this. Despite its election-year coloring, The Best Man is really a hardy perennial in the way it sets ethics against opportunism, statesmanship against careerism, and light against darkness. In the course of the evening, any number of real-life names and topical references crop up. Dinner parties will thrive on arguing who's who, or who's half-who, among...
Briskly staged by Joseph Anthony, The Best Man gets an able production. Melvyn Douglas is firm, suave and never priggish; Frank Lovejoy is much more than a mere stage villain; and Lee Tracy, fine as the ex-President, leaves a void when he is killed off before...
...many builders, the biggest villain of the slump is tight money. Though money has eased somewhat, building plans that would ordinarily be going into effect now have been postponed or dropped because of the difficulty of getting money to back them, even at a high 6% interest. "As long as money is tight," says Alex Bruscino, one of Cleveland's biggest home builders, "the housing business will continue downward." Many builders also insist-despite the Government's refusal to blame the housing slump on the weather-that winter storms badly damaged their business. Says Edward T. Rice, executive...