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The Engagements [2014] paperback COOK was devoted to her brilliant1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman's finger, and that she is as good at her job as any man. And then, in one moment of brilliant inspiration, Mary Frances writes down four words which will achieve both her aims . . . Moving from a Harvard swim meet in 1927 to the three martini lunches of 1940s advertising, from the