Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, Hitler's escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action. Hughes makes totally credible the incredible figure in the stained trench coat, hypnotically making his devil's incantations and stuffing cream puffs in his pockets-an ogre sowing the wind, though only the reader has a foreknowledge of the whirlwind to be reaped...
Groucho, Harpo, and Chico romp through A Day at the Races full speed ahead, leaving behind a trail of devastated buildings, befuddled police officers, and shattered pianos. Groucho is cast as a horse doctor in disguise, Harpo as a jockey, and Chico as an ice cream vendor, but all this is merely an excuse for them to get together and start wrecking the place. It is a foregone conclusion that Harpo will ride the horse to victory and save the sanatorium of which Groucho has become chief of staff...
...next item on the program was a cafeteria-style dinner of spaghetti, salad, and ice cream, at the end of which a pretty freshman rubber-stamped the back of your hand with indelible...
Actually, it is an ordinary pie crust full of shaving cream, and 36-year-old Soupy Sales (born Milton Hines) makes about $150,000 a year largely for his exploitation of this antic vaudeville wheeze. He can fill up five minutes of TV air time simply getting schlopped with pie after pie. Who likes the act? Hordes of juvenile and juvenile-minded viewers-also, it appears, Frank Sinatra. And what Sinatra likes, the Clan likes and loyally supports...
Instant Justice. Worrying the ad community is the FTC's recent cease-and-desist order against Colgate-Palmolive Co. and its hard-selling agency, Ted Bates & Co. In a Bates TV commercial, Palmolive's Rapid Shave cream was applied to "sandpaper," and the sand was shaved cleanly off. But Dixon's FTC found Bates had used Plexiglas instead of sandpaper and that sand was not in fact shaved off the real thing. The FTC then ordered that Colgate and Bates should never again falsely advertise shaving cream or use "spurious mock-ups or demonstrations for any product...