Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of Revlon, Inc., stepped briefly into the public eye as he appeared before the congressional subcommittee investigating the rigged TV shows, which included two that he sponsored. While Charlie Revson is little known to TV viewers, he is recognized in his own circle as a man who makes Madison Avenue tremble and his competitors writhe with fury. See BUSINESS, The Unflabbergasted Genius...
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint...
...YORK, Nov. 4--Jim Elder of Canada sped around the course in a faultless ride aboard Isgilde in 30.7 seconds and won the West Point Challenge Trophy as the national horse show began an eight-day run in Madison Square Garden...
Many a network official was trying frantically last week to prove that (in the words of a popular commercial) he was Mr. Clean. So busy was the TV industry at its new purity kick that, according to the latest Madison Avenue gag, "CBS is about to move Church of the Air to prime evening time." NBC finally got around to bouncing the admittedly corrupt Tic Tac Dough, chose an apt replacement: Truth or Consequences. Still another lavish NBC giveaway, The Price...
...turns out, the movie's pivotal figure is Woody Thrasher (David Wayne), a rising young executive who is torn between his innate sense of honor (of course no man of honor would want to work in Madison Avenue) and financial pressure (it is almost axiomatic that men of honor have mortgages to pay). Thrasher's story, with some minor changes, has been told repeatedly in the past few years...