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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Printer's Eros. In Pittsburgh, Divorcee Jane Oliver, seeking a housekeeper for her children, placed a classified ad offering "room and board, small salary in exchange for your loving care," was inundated with phone calls after the Press ran the ad under MALE HELP WANTED...
...carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
Invitational Bowling (NBC, 10 p.m.-ad infinitum). The finals of the world series of bowling, broadcast live from the Chicago Coliseum...
Candid. In Neosho, Mo., an ad in the News boasted of "EXPANSION WATCH BANDS, Men's and Ladies', gold filled $2.95, stainless $1.50, values...
...show as originally written was just another pastiche of obvious jokes, carefully planted "ad libs" and situations more ridiculous than riotous. Then Writer Sherwood Schwartz had a radical notion: drop the dialogue entirely. Comedian Red Skelton, who has hankered for years to work in pantomime, leaped at the idea...