Has everyone forgotten Levy's questioning of the impartiality of the US judicial system during his bid to scupper True North's merger with Bozell seven years ago? "I can't believe the country of free markets can be so protectionist," he fumed. How times change ... Nice to see some generosity from the director Howard Guard, who bought the redundant village church at Great Munden in Hertfordshire and turned it into an arts centre. He's now leasing it back to the community for 99 years for the annual rent of a single red rose ... It will cost Trevor Beattie a bit more to become one of the passengers on Richard Branson's first space flight, scheduled for 2008. At £100,000, the TBWA\London chairman's wallet is set for a period of weightlessness ... A waggish client has suggested a new moniker for Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, which has lost Campbell and will soon say farewell to Rainey and Kelly. Simply promote the managing partner Tony Harris and call it Roalfe Harris!
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