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Article: Rosenshine: Kanner lived life to its fullest; TRIBUTE: BBDO chief recalls columnist's spirit, passion, personal legacy.(Allen Rosenshine)(BBDO Worldwide)(Bernice Kanner)
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- Advertising Age
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- October 30, 2006
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Byline: ALLEN ROSENSHINE
In remembering bernice kanner, it would no doubt be repetitious to cite her many professional achievements as an exceptional journalist, writer, marketing innovator, advertising commentator, and insightful observer of consumer and social behavior. (The only blemish I can think of on her otherwise wonderful career was her generously inaccurate description of me as "lean and lithe'' in an article she wrote some 25 years ago, when in fact I have been neither for twice that long. It remained a joke between us.)
No, instead of her career, I'd rather think of Bernice as the very close friend she was to me and my wife, Missy. In fact, ...