Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blithe Spirits. In Niagara Falls, Ont.. a plaintive ad ran in the Review: "Wanted to rent-a haunted house or apartment, by a young couple who are just ghosts of their former selves...
...Otis & Co. ad offering a new bond issue. In the underwriting syndicate: Chock-Full O'Nuts, S. Klein, Good Humor, Inc., Army & Navy Stores, Inc., Diet Smith, B. O. Plenty, and Your Friendly Socony Dealer...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
Deepest thrusts were at the Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has sold $53 million worth of stock, has yet to mass-produce a car. Said a Bawl Street Journal ad: "See the Kaiser or Frazer before you buy! We'd like to see one ourselves some day. There's real no-driving pleasure in ordering a Kaiser-Frazer car. . . . Besides, your deposit will draw interest each January and July 1 while you wait for delivery. Kaiser, Frazer, Superman & Thurston. 'Automobiles Floated on Water.' While you wait for our cars-Take a ride in our stock...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Three Washington newspapermen work on Ohio's Senator Robert Taft in one of radio's steadily best ad-lib forums...