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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought in about $11 million in network time charges, helped Procter & Gamble sell 3 billion boxes of Oxydol (to get clothes "whiter than sun-white''). Last year Ma was leased to other sponsors, e.g., Lever Bros. (Spry for "nongreasy donuts") and Lipton ("new Flo-Thru Tea Bags"), but P.&G. refused to sell her outright...
Number three Crimson varsity tennis player Brooks Harris teamed with Tom Raleigh in the National Doubles Tennis Tournament in Brookline on Aug 15 thru 20. The due defeated a pair from Princeton and Yale but lost in the second round to the eventual winners, two Japanese players...
...primitivistic cover-figure from which Gullible's Travels Thru Harvard gains its basic nomenclature dominates and imbues this ambitiously conceived publication with an atavistic tendency parallel in some respects to practically nothing. Al Capp (and in many instances he must be considered the anti-Capp) prepares the reader for subsequent perusal by an explanatory letter in which he combines the fanciful and the mock satirical to introduce the two authors, Larry Levine and Phil Costello, both of whom are Harvard...
Thus in the cover and in the Cappian introduction are contained those rudimentary tools, the machinery, with which we can in the most facile manner explore the themes of Gullible's Travels Thru Harvard (hereinafter referred to as gttf 1). Primitivism, atavism, satiricism, and fancifulism are the four poles about which we must revolve, slowly and steadfastly. Admittedly, such an approach requires a temporary spatial schizophrenia, there being only two poles per world in accepted naturalistic schematization. Never mind, because it we are to adopt this attitude, we must merely become a kind of eternally pendent deus ex machina, which...