Bob CollinsLynn Hauldren has died. You probably don’t know the name, but people all over the planet, apparently, would stop him on the street and sing the Empire Carpet jingle to him. He wrote the jingle. He was also the pitchman for the company.
Death of a pitchman
About the blogger
Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.