Word: revlon
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...this saccharine ditty from the 1926 hit parade recently had a cataclysmic effect. For weeks the agency had been searching its accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products Corp. It had also been worrying over the same sort of thing for Columbia Recording Corp.'s Dinah Shore. Then several of its geniuses remembered the old song. It was a natch. Lyric writers changed the first line to 'Who will buy my ultra violets?" and substituted...