One request, for example, could someday arrange a discount flight to Paris, to be met by a red limo with chocolates in the backseat, and to take you to a Champs-Elyses hotel room higher than the fifth floor.
On Sept. 27, 1972, just a year after joining France's oldest ad agency, Levy dashed into the firm's still-smoldering offices after a fire and rescued documents and magnetic tapes that would keep Publicis in business while its splashy Champs-Elyses headquarters was rebuilt.