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Growing up in a family with many members who earned their livings on Wall Street and with many ancestors and relatives who had done the same, I—as might be expected—very early heard stories of business that I found as fascinating as the tales of military action I was soaking up
Back in the early years of the present century the advertising industry cooked up an art form that had a quaint and brief life.

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