Ad for Anacin (1952)

"The Anacin ads, he later admitted, 'were the most hated commercials in the history of advertising.' But they increased Anacin sales from $18 million to $54 million per year in an 18-month period. 'Not bad,' Reeves once said, 'for something written between cocktails at lunch.'" (David Halberstam, The Fifties, page 226)