Ron’s famous lasting words

What an excellent thought behind the Leagas Shafron agency house ads you’ve been running recently. “If you’d like to be more famous than your agency, call Ron Leagas” is the message.

In fact, I think it is as good a thought as it was back in the Eighties when we used it as the title of EMT’s brochure, a copy of which I recollect Ron admiring when we once met him.

It appears to be a durable thought too.

Bob Edwards

Burkitt Edwards Martin

London W1

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