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...Courts are not fitted to judge whether a cartel is harmful to the economy or not. That is my job." Only Adenauer's intercession forced Erhard to accept a compromise bill permitting exceptions for "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings. "Damned little butter for such a big slice of dry bread," snorted Erhard as the Bundestag passed the bill. Yet even this watered-down law makes Germany the first European country to take a stand in principle against "associations in restraint of competition...
...contralto voice said, "The Dagmar show is out, and Ed Sullivan doesn't look good." Green hung up and took a slice of cinnamon toast. "Did you know," he said, "that Nathan Pusey was a classmate of mine...
...shares (Senior Vice President Charles Lachman, who is represented by the "l" in Revlon, owns 525,000). With that much financial stake in his own company, Revson expects a lot from Madison Avenue. Small Warwick & Legler (1956 billings: $14.5 million) is expected to get the biggest slice of BBDO's lost account. As for BBDO, said cheery Charlie Brower: "I'll just go out and get eight new $1,000,000 accounts...
...young column writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...
Susan Douglas's slice of life, The Visit, is certainly the most readable story in the current issue. It interestingly portrays a college girl's conflict between allegiance to her farm family and to the values of the richer city. A most amusing and dramatic incident of this is the interruption of the girl's "Dr. and Mrs. Allen have a tremendous amount of savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences...