Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Childe Harold, the folks who run Wimbledon should have known what kind of fruit would spring from those seeds. Ever since open tennis went into effect this spring, amateurs have been beating pros with astonishing regularity. Yet when the seedings were announced for last week's 82nd All-England Tennis Championships, nine out of the top ten were pros. Tournament officials obviously assumed that professionals, by definition, are better players than amateurs, and that the pros would be at the top of their game for the first truly big open tournament. With two exceptions, they were wrong...
...play against such famous men as Gonzales." After Pancho, the deluge. Australia's Lew Hoad (No. 7) was dumped by South Africa's Bob Hewitt, also unseeded; Aussie Roy Emerson (No. 5) lost to The Netherlands' Tom Okker, and Spain's Andres Gimeno (No. 3) went down before Ray Moore, a long-haired, self-styled hippie, who ranks only No. 3 in his home country of South Africa...
...Ferrer supplies the voice-over continuity. Edward G. Robinson poured for Maxwell House coffee. Jack Benny promotes Texaco gasoline. George Burns puffs El Producto cigars. Sometimes the process is reversible. Actress Barbara Feldon was a sexy slink of a salesgirl for Top Brass hairdressing ("Sic 'em, tiger") before she went big on legit TV as co-star of Get Smart! Pam Austin, the original Dodge girl, is now a member of the cast of Rowan and Martin's Laugh...
...Many Millimeters? Good gags, as any adman knows, stick in the mind. And so do successful commercials, so much so that they keep coming back like a bad memory. Shell once got good mileage out of a spot in which a driverless car went rolling off to a Shell station to lap up some gas with TCP. So now Sinclair shows an auto deserting a pair of newlyweds to get a quick belt of KRC. A few years ago, Chevrolet displayed a car atop a spire-like butte in the Mojave Desert. Ah so, said the Toyota people, and right...
...Iowa farmboy who paid his way through Northwestern University by boxing at club fights, Gookin went on to Harvard Business School, and signed up with Heinz in 1945 after varied jobs in other companies. Hired as an accountant, he worked his way up to comptroller and financial vice president, made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna...