DDB Founder Maxwell Dane, Dead At 98

  • August 10, 2004
Maxwell (Mac) Dane, the last remaining founder of legendary ad agency Doyle Dane Bernbach, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 98. In 1949, he joined with Ned Doyle and William Bernbach to form Doyle Dane Bernbach, the agency whose work was renowned for its wry wit and credited with defining an era in advertising through such campaigns as "Think Small" for Volkswagen, "We Try Harder" for Avis, and "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye bread."
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