Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying. This week Gramps got a tasteful TV funeral and such sponsor-selected eulogies as "Gramps's gone. Everybody loved...
...formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when...
...been James Doe." Said Roosevelt: "I learned how to dine with royalty (you had to finish all of your soup before you earned your meat course) and how to find my way to a tower guest room in Windsor Castle without bumbling into the Queen's or someone else's quarters...
Fish-Scale Paint. A hot-rod buff himself. Bachelor Petersen aims his magazines at a dedicated army of backyard putterers, fellow hot-rodders and sports-car zealots from Hawaii to Great Britain. This 99.9% male audience relies on Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance reports on the new cars, and styling tips for faddists who keep their autos a la mode with rear-seat TV, stain-pearl paint made of crushed fish scales, "chopped tops" (i.e., lowering the cab) and taillight kits that make a 1952 Ford as finny as a '57 Plymouth...
...soup?" said I, twitching my chop sticks...