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...said to me, ‘What are you thinking of doing when you get out of college? Aren’t you going to write?’” Limpert recalls. “I say, ‘John, anything I can think of to say about life I can say in three sentences.’ He said, ‘Well, then write those three sentences...
...Limpert decided to stick with writing, though not in the style he had cultivated at Harvard. He started to work at a public information office for the U.S. Army, where he developed a crisp, clean form learned from the news reporters on assignment there...
...Limpert then made the switch to international advertising and marketing, working at prestigious New York firms McCann Erickson and Ted Bates & Co. In Manhattan he regularly attended lectures at the Harvard Club, and made a contact close to the MoMA board of directors. He was approached in 1973 and offered a position as director of development and fundraising for the museum...
...said, ‘Goodness gracious, I don’t know that much about modern art.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ve got plenty of people who know about that,’” Limpert recalls...
...Yorker born, raised, and schooled in Brooklyn, where his father worked making extracts for ice cream, Limpert says he wanted to improve the city’s cultural institutions...