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...invited to cook steaks over the living-room fire at the home of her neighbor. Paul Fout, who sells hunters and rides amateur races. Other guests included Nelson ("Monk") Noland of Warrenton, who owns the Fauquier Laundry; James (Jim) Wiley of Middleburg, who breeds and raises thoroughbreds at Benton Farm near Middleburg; and Mrs. Magalen Crane of The Plains, who hunts with Orange County...
...place cannot be found in the gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...domestic and overseas billings: Thompson, $370 million: Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson), $352 million; Young & Rubicam, $247 million; B.B.D.O., $243,700,000; Dentsu Advertising of Japan, $148,500,000; Ted Bates, $130,500,000; Foote, Cone & Belding, $120 million; Leo Burnett, $116,700,000; Benton & Bowles, $114 million; N. W. Ayer, $110 million. Biggest agency in domestic billings is Interpublic, with a combined billing of $259 million from McCann-Erickson, Canada's McCann-Erickson subsidiary and McCann-Marschalk, an independent subsidiary. Runner-up is Thompson, with $250 million in U.S. and Canadian billings...
...BENTON, O.C.S.O. Director
...York governorship in 1962. While the Rome post might be good for a lot of Italian-American votes, F.D.R. Jr. has almost certainly decided not to take-at least for a while-an Administration job. In that case, the next choice for Rome is Encyclopaedia Britannica Chairman William Benton, the onetime Connecticut Senator and big-time Kennedy campaign contributor...