Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, an unexpected champion arose for the millions who cannot tell Chicken Marengo* from Escalope de Foie Gras Talleyrand† from Surprise Omelet Milord- from apple pie a la mode.†† The champion was a writer for Budapest's Communist daily Vilagossag, who (he related in his column) recently walked into a "people's restaurant" and promptly had his appetite ruined by an item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol...
...audience, Godfrey is a mile-high stack of blue chips to CBS, to his sponsors and to their advertising agencies. Though admen may wince at a typical Godfrey commercial (plugging a shampoo made of eggs and milk, he cracked: "And if your hair is clean, it makes a fine omelet"), they admit he makes products move...