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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...
...started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
Presently the big automobile reached Mountain View, was coursing down a road lined with orchards when a Buick sedan belonging to Valley Electric Co. suddenly popped out of an intersection. In the resultant crash, Audrey McCann was thrown out, knocked unconscious, hospitalized for four weeks with a brain concussion, an eye injury, many a laceration. The McCanns and the Hoffmans remained friends until John McCann tried to collect damages. When the Hoffmans and their insurance company refused to pay, the McCanns sued the Hoffmans for $30,000 general damages, plus $1,237.65 special damages...
...whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend of local laws governing "guest claims...
...host for damages unless the host were guilty of gross negligence, drunkenness or willful misconduct. In 1931, to cut down collusion, the gross negligence clause was removed. A guest was denned as a "person who accepts a ride in any vehicle without giving compensation therefor." When the McCann-Hoffman case came to trial year ago, the McCanns claimed that they were not guests of the Hoffmans since they had agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding but admitted that there had been talk of sharing expenses. Nonetheless, the judge ruled...