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...desserts were no more successful. The fresh fruit in kirsh ($.95) wasn't really; the fruit was canned, topped with a lone fresh strawberry, and what may have been a fresh banana. The custard of the creme caromel ($.60) was rich but the caramel was sugary and not browned sufficiently. The Babas au Rhum ($.95) tasted like a sponge soaked in other

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Fair Find, Middling French | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

Madison Avenue's stock formula for a TV commercial is made up of varying parts of humor and pixy dust, with perhaps a base of fact. That formula has worked spectacularly for Dr Pepper, a fruit-flavored soft drink that has been a staple for generations in the South and Southwest, but was unknown elsewhere five years ago. Since then it has expanded nationwide, taking chunks of such sophisticated markets as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles away from Coke and Pepsi. Its chief assault has been made by an ad campaign that presents Dr Pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Likable Lilliputian | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...fourth largest-selling soft drink. The company's sales have doubled, to $63 million, and profits have risen even more, to $6.7 million. Dr Pepper's success has not gone unnoticed by its competitors. Last week Coca-Cola began test marketing Mr. PiBB, a similar fruit-flavored drink, right in Dr Pepper's own backyard. Texas and Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Likable Lilliputian | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...spumoni ice cream. The salad swims in the dressing of your choice; the House dressing is bland and oily. The butter is whipped and the garlic effective. The spaghetti was delicate, but disappointly overcooked. The coffee was cold, but the spumoni was authentic--the real Italian kind complete with fruit and nuts...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Burgers, Pasta and Patisserie | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...great newsstands which stand across Mass Ave from one another. They are Out of Town Newspapers and Nini's Corner. Out of Town stocks an incredible number of papers and magazines from all over the country and the globe. Nini's has an amazing porno collection, and fruit and peanuts besides

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: HARVARD SQUARE | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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