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Probably the most widely publicized 800 numbers belong to the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the largest consumer products advertiser in the U.S., which provides one of several toll-free numbers with each of its 59 products. From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., a staff of 85 P&G employees handles an average of 1,200 calls daily, advising people on everything from choosing the right toothpaste to how to bake a cake...
...Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia...
Montreal 4, Cincinnati...
...country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Mork & Mindy-had been erased from the prime-time schedule. Their ghosts would haunt reruns, but the message seemed clear: the era of the sophisticated sitcom was over. Thus it was fitting that the characters who had inhabited the Mary Tyler Moore show, first and best of breed...
Murray ignored the remark. "I'll miss WKRP in Cincinnati," he volunteered, his bald head waxing nostalgic. "They were like us too-a tiny, not very successful radio station whose employees were never quite resourceful or ruthless enough to be No. 1. I always thought of them as human Muppets. Dynel Andy and soft, squeezable Mr. Carlson tried to keep their charges in order. But Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever, the disc jockeys, were too weird, and Les Nessman too straight, and Bailey too nice-a little like you, Mary-and Herb Tarlek too wonderfully oafish to realize...