Word: jemima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...obviously painted flats, the actors yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down. The side characters are sarcastic caricatures of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and any old suth'n cunnel (Sorrell Booke); the hero is a big-mouthed burlesque of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nevertheless, every third line sinks in like a needle-not so deep it draws blood but deep enough to get under a white man's skin...
...that their thousands of service stations offer ideal retail locations for one-stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell gifts and repair...
...designed, usually are located in suburban areas, where they get maximum family traffic. They offer the once-humble griddle cake, glorified and garnished in up to 37 astonishing varieties (e.g., crepe suzette, blintze, Swedish roll-up, royal Hawaiian). Fast growing Pancake Kitchens, Inc. this week opened its tenth "Aunt Jemima's Kitchen" at Bethpage, Long Island, plans to have 36 shops operating in the Eastern U.S. by 1967. International House, which has 63 shops across the country, is opening new Pancake Houses at a clip of one almost every week...
...Ancel was not home much. Bright but unbridled, he disliked school, at ten spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes of nearby Grizzly Peak. "We didn't see a solitary soul." says Keys. "Just hiked and ate. Three breakfasts a day-Aunt Jemima pancakes, dried prunes and bacon. Not too bad a diet. You can eat anything for a few days...