From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser’s attitude would…

From any cross-section of ads, the general advertiser’s attitude would seem to be: if you are a lousy, smelly, idle, underpriveleged and oversexed status-seeking neurotic moron, give me your money.

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Kenneth Bromfield in Advertiser’s Weekly , 1962

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