The Skies Get Friendly Again

In the opening sequence of Fly Girls, a half-hour reality series premiering later this month on the CW, five Virgin America flight attendants are shown buttoning up white blouses, slipping on pencil skirts and tying ascots to the tune of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok.” A coquettish voice-over begins: “We jet to the most beautiful places in Read More

‘Grey Flannel Gal’ Tells All-Flying High on Madison Avenue

A Big Life (in Advertising) , by Mary Wells Lawrence. Alfred A. Knopf, 307 pages, $26.

Mary Wells in the late 60′s … the stuff of dreams! Her idea of advertising was to “create miracles”-and that’s exactly what she did, the chief miracle being her ownagency,Wells Rich GreeneInc.,which sprouted in eight rooms of the Read More

‘Grey Flannel Gal’ Tells All-Flying High on Madison

A Big Life (in Advertising) , by Mary Wells Lawrence. Alfred A. Knopf, 307 pages, $26.

Mary Wells in the late 60′s … the stuff of dreams! Her idea of advertising was to “create miracles”-and that’s exactly what she did, the chief miracle being her ownagency,Wells Rich GreeneInc.,which sprouted in eight rooms of the old Read More