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Even though the wives seem to thrive on it, some still yearn for the day when "everyone could just get together in a sort of secret cartel on ambition." FORTUNE itself puts in a plug for the "ornery wife," thinks the "integration" has gone too far. "Conformity," says an editorial on the survey, "is being elevated into something akin to a religion." But there are still companies that will have no part of it. Says one auto executive: "Wives' activities are their own business. What do these companies want for their $10,000? Slavery...
...reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...
...Told the American Dental Association: "I still have . . . more teeth than most any other 67-year-old man," and put in a plug for his compulsory health-insurance program...
When the promoters deal in a stock for which there is a market, they often jack up the price 100% or more when selling to U.S. customers. Example: promoters got thousands of copies of a Toronto Financial Post oil supplement, substituted a phony page to plug the "Moose Pasture Oil Company," and mailed the copies to a list of potential U.S. suckers. For the stock, which was selling at 20? a share in Toronto, they asked...
Bing took his idea to Frank Stanton, president of CBS (owner of Columbia Records). In a matter of minutes, he had a $70,000 loan. "Of course," says Bing, "it wasn't just because of my pretty blue eyes." The tour will be a high-class plug for Columbia's new Fledermaus album...