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That was no mere melodrama. Last week Don Johnston, chairman of the JWT Group Inc., the parent company of J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's second largest advertising agency after Young & Rubicam, admitted that more than $30 million in phony revenues had turned up in the firm's records. Writing off the losses pushed J. Walter Thompson's 1981 earnings down 43%, to $7.1 million. Moreover, the company also admitted that two clients had been charged for television commercials that were never aired. The agency belatedly returned the money to the two firms...
According to J. Walter Thompson officials, Luisi's department in 1978 began falling behind the aggressive profit projections that Johnston set for all parts of the agency. Luisi was having a harder time getting television stations to run the company's programs, and commercial time was not being sold. Meanwhile, her department was spending $30 million on new programs...
...carried out many A-bomb and H-bomb tests in the atmosphere between 1945 and 1963, after which they agreed to confine all future tests to underground. Yet considerable conjecture remains over the effects of these explosions. Extrapolating from some equipment failures after an American test over Johnston Island in the North Pacific 20 years ago, defense planners concluded that high-altitude blasts send out a shock wave called electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which can burn out transistorized and computerized communications for thousands of miles around...
...smeared the whole field, "Coach Jack Barnaby said after her 15-4, 15-8, 15-6 destruction of Franklin and Marshall's Leslie Johnston in the final...
Before the statue could be moved to the Paul King foundry in Johnston, R.I., for a week of repairs, it was dismantled and lifted onto a truck with a crane. Moore's sculpture, valued at $500,000 and donated by David Bakalar '46, was first installed across from Lamont Library on September...