Unlikely Success is an engaging, enlightening, and thoroughly entertaining collection of recollections that let us follow Marvin Chernoff from his days playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn to winning the Shell Oil corporate advertising account away from the Madison Avenue "big boys" for his ad agency in Columbia, South Carolina. Among those who worked with him and for him, and those for whom he worked (and in plenty of cases, those who worked against him), these stories are the stuff of legend. Bootlegging fresh meat and learning to "make do" in WWII Brooklyn. Scarfing down ice cream...