Client Lunches Are Worth It, Research Shows: Real Ad Headlines from ‘Mad Men’ Era


On Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, thanks to the office’s new IBM 360, creative Stan Ginsberg lost his mind, as well as a nipple. Don Draper also reunited with his niece Stephanie and crashed a big meeting between SC+P and potential tobacco client Phillip Morris. Meanwhile, the former Mrs. Draper got belittled by hubby Henry — “Leave the thinking to me,” he said. Even though, as Betty professed, “I’m not stupid. I speak Itallian.”

But what was the real news from the ad world at the time? Find out in this edition of Throwback Thursday Ad Age Headlines, pulled from June, 1969.

More on the show and the era here.

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