Agency Chief Palmer Dies at 74

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NEW YORK Robert Palmer, founder and former chairman of media services shop RJ Palmer, died last Friday at the age of 74, the agency confirmed. The cause of death was a blood infection. He retired from the agency in 2007.
 
Palmer established the namesake shop in 1979, and the agency says it was the first stand-alone media shop to be created in the U.S. His advertising career began at Kenyon & Eckhart and he later moved to Cunningham & Walsh.

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