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Robert E. Healy, chairman, McCann-Erickson Inc. advertising agency. .L.H.D...
Until she died last February at 84, sprightly Mrs. Anna Erickson occupied a special place in the art world. Her late husband was an advertising tycoon (McCann-Erickson, Inc.) who, with a connoisseur's taste, had begun a small collection of paintings that she kept adding to. In the end, the collection had only 24 works, but it was one that made the mouths of museum directors water...
...hope that Mrs. Erickson might leave the treasure to them, says Director Ric Brown of Los Angeles' County Museum, "museum directors all over the world have been doing the fanciest snake dances about this picture." But, following the pattern of her husband's will, Mrs. Erickson divided her estate into 90 parts, and that meant that almost all the paintings had to be sold. For four months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose...
...summa cum laude at Northwestern, Pete Peterson went into advertising as a market researcher, soon caught the eye of the research-happy McCann-Erickson agency. He was made a McCann vice president at 27, shortly after became right-hand man to McCann's President Marion Harper (who himself was named to the agency's top spot at 32). Distressed at reports that Bell & Howell was trying to lure Peterson away. Harper three years ago informed top McCann executives that Peterson was his chosen successor. But Peterson ignored the offer, jumped to Bell & Howell when the bait was sweetened...
...four, all American: J. Walter Thompson; Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson); Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...