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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

More than 15 years ago, I read the fascinating memoir Mary Wells Lawrence's A Big Life in Advertising.

Mary Wells Lawrence is a legend.

She was the first woman to be president of an advertising agency and the first woman to be CEO of a company on the New York Stock Exchange.

This memoir traces her career from starting as a fledgling copywriter to head of the advertising agency that came up with ads like Flick Your Bick and I Love New York.

And plot, plot, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is.

One story from that book has stuck in my mind for a very long time.

She's describing a period of her career when she's working as the copy chief of the fashion division of Macy's.

She's writing all the advertising copy and she's very happy in that role.

Then one day she recounts people were gathering around the first TV sets that appeared not because the programs were enthralling, but because the pictures moved.

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