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After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...
...corporal spoke dreamily of the nights in Howie Dryman's Texaco Bar & Grill across the river from Vincennes, Ind. 'I'll smoke fresh cigarets,' he said, 'not cigarets that's beat up and spilling both ends...
...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
...Both Texaco and Bendix get their return in public good will. So do the stars who donate their services. Says Producer Charles Vanda, who coordinates the show for CBS in Hollywood...
...cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...