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Such purposeful foolery, cooked up by Freberg in cooperation with the Manhattan ad agency he whimsically refers to as Batten, Barton, Durstine & Yangpoo, have helped make a flamboyant. 43-year-old businessman named Jeno Paulucci (pronounced Puh-loo-chee) the nation's most successful manufacturer of Chinese food. Barely 15 years old, Paulucci's Duluth-based Chun King Corp. now rings up more than half of all U.S. sales of packaged Chinese food. Chun King's gross climbed 15% to $30 million last year, and Paulucci-who owns the whole company-expects a still fatter gain this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Sweet Success, Chinese Style | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...next day 500 of the Senator's latest words clicked in from Newark, Ohio. Cried the News: "Puh-leeze, Senator! . . . Cut our name off your list and save the taxpayers a few dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puh-leeze, Senator! | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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