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Article: David B. Abramson Dies at 67; Ad Executive and Civic Leader
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- The Washington Post
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- August 9, 2002
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David B. Abramson, 67, who founded what became the advertising and
marketing agency Abramson Ehrlich Manes and had played a prominent
role in the region's civic life for the last four decades, died Aug.
8 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. He had cancer.
Over the years, Mr. Abramson advised some of the District's
leading politicians, including former delegate Walter E. Fauntroy,
D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and the late David A.
Clarke, the council chairman.
When Marion Barry, a street activist and school board member,
began his first bid for mayor in the late 1970s, he sought Mr.
Abramson for his advertising campaign.
The early ads took the unusual step of not featuring the ...