Former Agency Chief Jordan Dies at 73

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BOSTON Jim Jordan, a former ad agency owner and creative executive who helped craft some of the industry’s best-known campaigns during a career that spanned five decades, died on Wednesday while snorkeling in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was 73.

The cause of death is presumed to be a heart attack, according to his son Michael Jordan, a group creative director and managing partner at Interpublic Group’s Gotham in New York.

Born in White Plains, N.Y.,



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