David Ogilvy was a bright star in the advertising solar system and is well known to advertising scholars and practitioners alike. His advertising career started quite late in life, at an age when most men had already settled into careers. Ogilvy led a storied life before his turn to advertising. Before advertising took its hold on him, British-born Ogilvy was expelled from Oxford (for his indifference"), worked as a social worker in Edinburgh, became a chef's apprentice in Paris and sold Aga ovens door to door in England.

Then, in 1936, his older brother Francis got David an internship at the London ad agency Mather &

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