A Woman to Know: Mary Frances Gerety
She really created these romantic ideas that we now associate with diamonds, but she herself was not romantic in any way. It didn't interest her. — J. Courtney Sullivan
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Mary Frances wrote one of the most famous ad slogans of all time: "A Diamond is Forever."
In 1943, she joined a Philadelphia ad agency, hired as a female copywriter t…
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