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For much of the run of “Mad Men,” Sterling Cooper has been shorthand for an ever-evolving kind of independence. In the early days, before the sixties as we know them were in full swing, the agency was hedonistic strongpoint against late Eisenhower-era cultural conservatism. Later, while not quite a creative Mecca, it was a shelter against the transactional tide that would hit the industry — “our business is about buying time and space,” as Duck Phillips put it to the bigs at the acquiring Puttnam, Powell & Lowe right before Draper walked out of the room. Still later, Sterling Cooper became the foil to McCann-Erickson’s leviathan, even as it took McCann’s money.

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