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...half-hearted folkie back in 1965, when the first Richard and Mimi Farina album, Celebrations for a Grey Day, came out. Although it was later chosen by Robert Shelton of the New York Times as one of the ten best folk albums of the year, whatever that means, it didn't sell very widely. This is no surprise. Although it was a great record, it was in a basically acoustic idiom, mostly just guitar and dulcimer; Dylan had just issued Highway 61, and folk music, as we then knew it, was shot to hell...
Though all of the released Britons had lost weight, it was readily apparent that none had suffered the loss of any capitalistic instinct. After their first quick press conferences, all three clammed up with further details on their experiences, saving them for books and articles they planned to write. Grey kept a diary for just that purpose and is already in print with the first of a three-part series in this week's London Sunday sensation sheet, The People, which is being syndicated in Europe and Australia as well. The price reportedly paid was well over...
Will the tide of new products ever ebb? No, says Edward H. Meyer, president of Grey Advertising. "The products will continue to come; there's no end to that at all." That view is questioned by Wayne Jervis, formerly In-terpublic's new-product chief, who now heads his own product-development agency. "We are going through a phase when there are too many new products -some perhaps that are not meeting real needs," he says. Considering the crushing rate of new-product failure, that is indeed an understatement...
...dream of a time when I should have lived." As he moved along the chitchat-and-canape circuit last week in his polka-dot shirt, Levi's and sneakers, he seemed more a displaced mountain man than movie star, a character created not by Logan but by Zane Grey. When he launched into one of his stories, punctuated with bammos! and whistles, arm waving and mimicry, he might well have been regaling a bunch of the boys around a campfire...
...NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GREY by Patrick Boyle. 256 pages. Grove. $4.95. Filial infighting, the sound of sibling revelry by night, Irish wakes, corpse-rooms, tippling grannies, occasional flashes of savage perception and true humor...