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An Informal History of Advertising
EDITOR'S NOTE: This was written during the Great Depression---keep that in mind as you read it. Then, read it again. Omit the reference to the state of the economy and it could have been written today. Yet how many practicing professionals live by the tenets in this house ad from N.W. Ayer? Turn on a TV, pick up a magazine or open a newspaper and the answer is painfully obvious: too few.

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