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With his widow present in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, last week the first posthumous presentation of the gold medal for ''Distinguished Services to Advertising" was made to Alfred William Erickson. Until his death at 60 last November, "Eric" Erickson was chairman of the board, McCann-Erickson Inc., advertising agency; chairman of the board, Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., floor coverings; chairman of the executive committee, Technicolor, Inc.; member of the executive committee, Bon Ami Co. Leaving acknowledgments to her dead husband's partner, Henry K. McCann, Mrs. Erickson heard him praised as: the father of the commission basis...
Short, rotund, always cheerful, "Eric" Erickson, son of a Swedish engineer, was a product of the Brooklyn public schools. His first important job came at 24 as advertising manager for James McCutcheon Co. Two years later, in 1902, he formed his own agency and McCutcheon was his first account. It stayed with him all his life. He made the friendship of William Hamlin Childs, a power in Barrett Co. (Tarvia, roofing, chemicals), and that big Allied Chemical subsidiary became his first major account. Liking his advice, Barrett Co. invited him to become a board member, first of the series...
...film includes among its large cast such once well known screen figures as Lillian Gish, Monte Blue, Lillian Langdon, Eric von Stroheim, and Constance Talmadge, while Douglas Fairbanks and Colleen Moore appear as extras...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected the following officers last night: President, Robert W. Snyder '38; Vice-President, Eric T. Clarke '38; Secretary, Seymour Bunshaft '39; Treasurer, Mc Crae H. Cobb '39. Chester W. Williams 1G was appointed assistant conductor. The following new members were elected: Roy J. Beneechi '37, Mc Crae H. Cobb...
Married. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31. daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond, onetime (1919-33) Secretary of the League of Nations; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, assistant director of the American Academy of Rome; in Rome...