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“Great. I get to follow Ellen DeGeneres,” John Dooner deadpanned upon being introduced by the emcee last Wednesday at the Ad Council’s 52nd Annual Public Service Award Dinner. When the 3,000 Waldorf-Astoria guests settled down, the McCann Worldgroup chairman and CEO saluted the evening’s honoree, American Express chairman/CEO Ken Chenault. Other ad bigs in attendance included Ogilvy & Mather’s Shelly Lazarus, Yahoo!’s Terry Semel, the Ad Council’s Peggy Conlon, who gave a moving speech about adoption, McCann Erickson’s Nina DiSesa, Lowe’s Andrew Langer and The Kaplan Thaler Group’s Linda Kaplan Thaler.
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