Article: Clyde Davis: "He had a very adept sense of human nature. He challenged everybody to do better, and he usually succeeded.".(Cline, Davis and Mann Inc.)(Biography)

Clyde Davis is renowned in the industry for the fierce drive and visionary creative mind that helped him overcome weighty obstacles and make Cline Davis & Mann (CDM) an advertising powerhouse. But Davis has also been a versatile manager, an intuitive mentor and a connoisseur of rare beauty whose exacting standards brought out the best in his agency, its people and its product. His story reads like a Horatio Alger novel. It's a tale of up-by-your-bootstraps pluck and talent that saw a shy young man from a Chicago housing project scale the heights of the New York advertising world.

Davis is soft-spoken but straightforward, in the classic Upper Midwestern ...

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