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Article: `Most influential' ad person? My vote goes to Harry Paster.(Brief Article)
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- Advertising Age
- Article date:
- October 9, 2000
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It's a measure of Harry Paster's ubiquity in the ad industry that I cannot recall when I first met him. Plumbing the depths of memory, I can dredge up no introduction, no inaugural telephone call, no letter, no initial offer of help. All these and more I received from him over the years, but in my mind they're from someone I already knew, had long known, who would be around forever, teaching me what I did not know.
Although Harry succumbed at home two weeks ago to cancer, memory -- not just mine, but those of the thousands he touched in his 47 years in advertising -- assures he will indeed stick around for a long, long time.
I think it's fair to say ...