Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curving staircase and a sleep-in housekeeper, located in that lush preserve of Manhattan suburbia that lies just outside Hollywood. Possibly recalling her hungry working-girl roles of years past, Doris is a pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different ways (surprised, sultry, sincere, brisk, cordial) to say "Hi, there, I'm Beverly Boyer and I'm a housewife...
...goofy, spoofy radio commercials of Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste ("Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?") into the stomachs of consumers, and now Stan is going to try to move some of the consumers into church. His newest client: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Says Satirist Freberg, who earns about $500,000 a year by gently kidding his employers' products: "They wanted me to try to sell Christianity, actually, and I said I thought we would reach more people if we narrowed it down...
There is a tomato famine in the land. So much time has passed since Hollywood last turned up a really luscious girl that even casting directors are reading Playboy. For the last several years, Hollywood has had to import its glamour, and its latest is a westbound CARE package from Germany named Elke Sommer...
...said the weary oceanographer, is every bit as tough as "standing in a gale and fog on top of a building a mile and a half high and trying to lower a pingpong ball on a string into a tomato can on the sidewalk...
...Tomato-red Rolls-Royce, here he comes...