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...cartoons or his children's books, Geisel had the great salesman's gift for distilling an idea, making it glamorous and amusing - selling without shouting. Recognizing this, Standard Oil put him on other products, such as the auto additive Esso-lube. A Seussian creature would lurk on a car hood: Beware the "Moto-raspus"! Battle the "Karbo-nockus"! (Standard's oil to the rescue.) In a nod to dad, he also worked for Schaefer Beer; one cartoon had a stuffed moose head that comes to enthusiastic life when a waiter walks by with a bottle of Schaefer Bock Beer...
...most Seussian SNAFU of all is "Rumors" (Freleng, December 43), which begins with Geisel doggerel: "Twas a bright sunny day / With the air fresh and clean. / Not a rumor was stirring / Except in the latrine." There, SNAFU misinterprets another soldier's joke about a bombing as a warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth...
JOHN LITHGOW The 3rd Rock from the Sun actor's Seussian rhymes made best sellers of The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber. In I'm a Manatee a little boy dreams of a life of "gigan-atee" manatee proportions...
...name of Van Vleck/ is snoring so loud you can look down his neck./ This may not seem very important, I know,/ but it is, so I'm bothering telling you so." There ensued pages and pages of nonsense news about the weird doings of bugs and Seussian creatures. The object was to make a child fall fast asleep...
...appreciated the charming article on Dr. Seuss's books and characters crossing new frontiers into a movie and a Broadway musical [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 20]. Your writer Jess Cagle captured the devotion of Audrey Geisel, "the widow," to all things Seussian: keeping the ashes of her late husband Theodor Seuss Geisel in her hutch and monitoring all aspects of the licensing of Dr. Seuss materials. Were you aware that both How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat have been published in Latin? Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit (literally, How the Nasty Individual Named Grinch...