Ed McCabe was born in

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in 1938. He is a founder of Scali, McCabe, Sloves, an American

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of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1974, he was elected to the

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Hall of Fame at the age of 34. He remains the youngest person ever elected to the One Club Hall of Fame. He wrote several of the iconic ad campaigns of his era, including the Perdue Chicken,

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and Maxell advertising efforts. In 1987 he retired from the firm he founded to compete in the gruelling Paris-Dakar auto race. He subsequently wrote the book ''Against Gravity'' about this experience. In 1991 he founded McCabe & Company in

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. He now spends his time between New York City and his home in Marblehead, MA.

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External links

An interview with Mr.Edward McCabe
(''interviewed in 1968'')

1939 births Living people Businesspeople from Chicago American advertising executives Businesspeople from Miami 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub