Word: ficken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began selling verses and children's stories to newspapers. When Hecker H-O Co., makers of Force, held an advertising contest, Minny conceived the character of Sunny Jim, submitted jingles about him. The company paid her $100 for the idea, ordered more verses. Minny got her friend Dorothy Ficken, 16, to draw pictures of Sunny Jim. For a year they were kept busy. Then, to carry out a $1,000,000 advertising program, artists and copywriters were called in to help. Songs, marches, musical comedies, sermons, were composed about Sunny Jim. But the product was not taken...