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...Bumper's Bumper. Chicago's Hush Bumpers, Inc. is ready to put on sale pneumatic plastic auto-bumper guards which can be attached next to standard bumper guards or used to replace them entirely. The Shmoo-shaped hush bumpers come in a variety of car colors. In tests, they absorbed the shock of a car collision at 12 m.p.h. Price...
From $75 to $1,250. Overnight, like the Shmoo, Dagmar became a valuable piece of property. She made a guest appearance on the Red Cross pint-of-blood show, where she read an essay and sang a song. At a mammoth benefit in Madison Square Garden, Dagmar drew more applause (and whistles) than Ed Wynn, Bob Hope or Jimmy Durante. Her NBC salary rocketed from $75 a week to $1,250. ABC gave her $10,000 to sign a network contract that will pay her an additional $2,000 weekly, promised her a TV show of her own next fall...
...poster shows two giant young ladies, nude save for a white strip marked "censored," blaring out meaninglessly "Follies Bergere." Also a sheet painted with a new-type Shmoo, the "digger," hangs from the ceiling; and on one wall, dozens of babies pronounce the virtues of their candidate-choice...
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Pleased as punch with his gift copy of The Life and Times of the Shmoo and an assortment of shmoo toys, Emperor Hirohito's brother, Prince Chichibu, sat right down and wrote Cartoonist Al Capp a little thank-you note: "I, as a shmoo fan, was awfully delighted at seeing various activities of shmoo and its actual figure. The kigmy, I think, is too marvelous and the most useful creature in our human society . . . Long Live Li'l Abner...