Word: jello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russo carefully through the events of the party at which he said that he had heard Shaw, Lee Oswald and David Ferric, a former airlines pilot, discuss ways of killing the President. After two days of contradiction-riddled testimony, Russo made the state's case as shaky as JellO. He also displayed considerable antagonism toward Garrison and his staff, who had extracted depositions from him under hypnotism and the influence of Sodium Pentothal, a so-called truth serum. Russo admitted that he never heard either Shaw or Oswald agree to murder Kennedy-only Ferric actually said he would...
...view, but not of a range of life. The setting is Manhattan's Upper West Side, the people a middle-class family. From the beginning, much of the humor revolves around an inversion of sexual roles. The men, father, son and photographer-fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls...
Upscale. In the old radio days, a commercial announcer was the very embodiment of the product. Jimmy Wallington was Chase & Sanborn. Don Wilson was JellO. Harry von Zell was Ipana. Today the sell is generally softer or more tangential, the product is illustrated, and the salesman is anonymous and generally invisible. "You're not paying for the name," explains Chandler Warren, talent-booking boss for the Young & Rubicam ad agency. "You're paying for the quality that a person brings to the commercial...
Behind the counter "Our Special juicy grilled Steak Plate" is coming down to make way for Scrambled Eggs and Bacon. And one blatantly red jello with stiff whipped cream topping goes begging...
...Italy and Egypt. She and Close had two daughters, Adelaide and Eleanor. Marjorie inherited several million dollars, plus control of the Postum Co. She divorced Close in 1919, married Manhattan Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton (Dina's father) a year later. Hutton built the company into General Foods Corp. (JellO, Maxwell House, Yuban, Birds Eye). At last reports, Mrs. Post still held about 7% of the outstanding stock, worth $128 million. The Huttons also built Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room Spanish "cottage" in Palm Beach, and acquired a 350-ft. yacht, but their marriage ran aground. Marjorie...