Word: edsels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute for style...
...with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo...
...than appliance men, Detroit's automakers are fully aware of the repair problem. A Ford Motor Co. poll showed that 94% of all car buyers will return to the same dealer if they get good service, only 21% if service is bad. When Ford set up its new Edsel division, it realized that it would be hard to sell cars without expert service. Ford set up a complete garage where $1,000,000 worth of prototype cars were torn down and rebuilt to lick all servicing problems before the first Edsel was sold. Says Edsel Service Manager Harold...
Ford spent a quarter of a billion to style the Edsel differently from any other car. They made it. From the front it appears about to regurgitate...
...vertical grille effect on the new Edsel is strongly reminiscent of the vertical grille of my 1935 Plymouth, still...