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Within the past year, reform plans have been advanced by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the exchanges themselves. Late last month the House Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance, headed by California Democrat John Moss, weighed in with a 170-page blueprint for the securities industry's future. Now that nearly all interested parties have spoken, it is clear that the largely self-regulated industry must make sweeping changes rapidly or be forced into them by legislation, possibly soon after Congress convenes next January...
...some consumer advocates, that in itself is enough to stir new suspicion of advertising. Democratic Senator Frank Moss of Utah charges "wide spread and flagrant" failure of advertisers to substantiate their claims. His contention is based on a special study made for him by the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. A sampler of the results...
...hopes to have ready by year's end a report on which claims are well supported. The Consumer Interest Foundation, a unit just formed by Consumers Union, plans to study the FTC data with a view toward setting up more effective standards for documenting ad claims. Senator Moss is readying for the next session of Congress a bill that would force advertisers to send to any consumer who asks for it the same documentation substantiating ad claims that they have submitted to the FTC. Although bewilderment so far is the main result of the FTC program. such efforts...
...have gone flat, despite Howard Teichmann's efforts to freshen them. In 1952 Teichmann collaborated with Kaufman in the writing of one of Kaufman's last plays, The Solid Gold Cadillac. He was late in a line of distinguished collaborators who included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Moss Hart. Teichmann approaches his subject with enormous respect. He usually addressed Kaufman as "Mr. Kaufman." For Kaufman was the professional professional, and a sleepless craftsman who believed that plays were not written but rewritten...
...best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...