Talk:F. William Free

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 04:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Web links
The links in this article should be deleted or be formatted beyond unidentified links. I suggest using from WP:CITET -- KenWalker | Talk 04:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Personal comments
"(A personal aside) I was Senior Art Director at The Marschalk Company in the late 60s, when the launch of Fresca happened. The print ads were all full page newspaper, and were designed to run the day the TV campaign started. The ads ran in various cities around the country with the headline: "Blizzard Hits (name of city)" and were big and bold typographic statements (For those typofiles, the font was Winsor Black). Under the massive headline was a small square halftone of the Fresca bottle in a snowdrift, with the small line "Ice cold sugar-free Fresca, it's a blizzard." On the day the blizzard hit, (totally unexpected in late March, the weather bureau notwithstanding) I slogged my way to the agency and Bill and I walked down to Times Square, where I photographed him in his trademark trench coat and trilby, holding a bottle of Fresca. It was a quick Polaroid, and we had just hours to get it blown up and retouched and to the NY Times for a full page Marschalk house ad, with the headline "New York, we're sorry". We also got on TV that night with a similar commercial for the agency. Bill was very proud of that. Me too. Ron Kambourian"

Moved personal aside placed against policy on namespace. Doc ♬ talk 12:25, 19 January 2008 (UTC)