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To: Caroline who wrote (51)	4/28/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Elvis Jones	Read Replies (1) of 638

We've had an interesting story on Bank commercials here in St. Louis. Thom Sharpe, a Comedian (you may know him as the bald guy doing Ford commercials) was doing a series of commercials as the "Boatmen's Guy" for Boatmen's Bank. Boatmen's was bought by NationsBank and the series is history. The bored St. Louis media really talked this guy's losing his job up. Another local bank picked this up, turning "just a guy" into "Magna Man". Less than one month into the new commercials, Magna Bank announced they are being bought out by Union Planters. Union Planters may keep using him for their spots. Funny, eh? Duke

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