296:, and later an associate editor. Despite being an engineer, Caples rather engaged in business and advertising. Towards the end of his senior year, when each senior was to speak publicly after the graduation dinner. Caples became scared but after distracting himself by drinking a bottle of gin, which he had smuggled. It was one of his classmates who told him how he completed the assignment. Caples became a student engineer working with the New York Telephone but got bored that he consulted a vocational guide counselor who after hearing his story, told him how unambitious he was. Caples later focused on advertising since he would become a good writer. Caples proceeded to Certain Teed, where he was an aide to the assistant advertising manager. After inquiring how adverts works, Caples resigned since he found out that adverts are run by outsiders. He accepted to work at
315:. He was promoted to the position of the vice president at BBDO. Caples visited the New York Ad School, and in 1952, was invited by Bill Orchard to teach at Columbia University for a year. He accepted the request and soon finished. Caples, already conversant with advertising researches supervised advert researches for industries including the US Navy, Du Pont, General Electric, Lever Brothers, Goodrich, and US Steel. He continued working, teaching, and advertising. In 1972 Caples became a featured columnist for
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300:. Caples started his career in 1925, with his first printed advertisement for the Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Caples created a mail-order advert for the US School of Music in 1926, with a headline entitled "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano But When I Started to Play!", which became successful and was one of the 100 greatest advertisements of all time.
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