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It was an era of bold ideas, increasingly large budgets, and even bigger personalities — a time when advertising was seen as a glamorous, if maybe unethical, profession, populated by well-dressed men and women (but mostly men) profiting from the postwar consumer culture.

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I t was an era of bold ideas, increasingly large budgets, and even bigger personalities — a time when advertising was seen as a glamorous, if maybe unethical, profession, populated by well-dressed men and women (but mostly men) profiting from the postwar consumer culture.

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