article_snippet.sent: Don Draper, the creative director played by Jon Hamm, has become a symbol of the times -- his and, sometimes, ours.
article_snippet.sent: In March, a "Mad Men" bench was unveiled in front of New York's Time & Life Building, where the fictional firm of Sterling Cooper & Partners has the fictional firm of Sterling Cooper & Partners headquarters.
article_snippet.sent: The old orders are falling apart: white-shoe WASP firms like Sterling Cooper giving way to the ethnic pace-setters such as Doyle Dane Bernbach; grimy New York replaced by sunny Los Angeles; the "Good War" generation butting heads with the "Make Love, Not War" cohort; vacuum tubes and ledger books being displaced by a sleek, solid-state IBM world.
article_snippet.sent: It's all an ad agency can do to keep up.
article_snippet.sent: Last season saw plenty of intraoffice turmoil, thanks to the ill-fitting merger between Sterling Cooper and former rival Cutler Gleason and Chaough.
article_snippet.sent: Though all an ad agency survived, it's now without Bert Cooper (Robert Morse) and under the ownership of (real-life)
article_snippet.sent: Madison Avenue titan McCann Erickson.
article_snippet.sent: Peggy Olson's star left Bert Cooper (Robert Morse) once; indeed, Peggy Olson's star wouldn't have returned if Peggy Olson's star new agency hadn't merged with Peggy Olson's star old one.