Word: eckhardt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ball-Joint Suspension. One of her viewers was Howard Wilson, a vice president at the Kenyon & Eckhardt advertising agency, who thought she looked "awful cool, calm and relaxed," and asked her to do the Lincoln commercials on the Ed Sullivan Show, while Ed continued to deliver the sales message for Mercury. There were some bad moments. Wilson was not sure a girl would be convincing talking about such things as "high torque, turbodrive transmission" and "ball-joint suspension," and there were some fears that Julia might be too gentle to compete with "hard-selling" male announcers. Researcher Horace Schwerin came...
...Henry A. Eckhardt '56 was treated at Stillman Infirmary for facial lacerations after he was beaten by six youths on his way home with three companions at about...
...assailants apparently insulted the students from a car, and then got out and began swinging at Eckhardt. His companions, Timothy B. Cogan, Richard E. Fisher, and James B. Ayres, all juniors, managed to free Eckhardt, and their shouts for help frightened away the attackers...
...Eckhardt was then taken to Stillman where stitches were taken to sew up a cut on the side of his face...
...combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors (as many as were employed in the cast of State of the Union) to create a mock political parade and rally that ended up as a plug for Ford cars. Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more than usual and were rehearsed for three days instead of the customary few hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots" of the car while an off-screen announcer raves about "this year's sensation that thrills...