BACKGROUND
I was born on New York’s fabled lower East Side, at Mulberry andMott streets
in 'Little Italy.' As I recall, 'It was difficult in those days, to say the
least, trying to concentrate on art studies when our family was basically living
from day to day in the depressed economy of the early fifties; especially in our
neighborhood.'
Upon discharge from the Army, after serving in South Vietnam, I attended
college at night, while holding down a full-time job during the day. 'It was natural,
I suppose, for me to gravitate into the advertising business where I had heard it
was a dog-eat-dog environment. Turns out, I...more
