Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt the two remaining clubs in the division will be tuned into Curt Gowdy's play-by-play next October. The Cubs should be happy the Phils are in the league or Wrigley's boys would definitely be "double mint, double good, double last," in the 1974 campaign. True, Chicago did junk that disgruntled pair of Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins on Unfortunate American League chumps. But the Cubs failed to capitalize on their close-out sale and will be knocking on the Phillies' dungeon door all season long...
...tempered Chicago Cubs Manager Leo ("Nice guys finish last") Durocher, now 66, may be mellowing. At any rate, his baseball team has performed disappointingly. And when his club is losing, there seems to be only one thing for a big-league owner to do. So Cubs Owner Philip K. Wrigley followed tradition; he fired Leo and hired a new manager: Whitey Lockman. Wrigley did try to soften the blow by blaming most of the team's failures on the players. "I don't think they've been earning their pay," he said. "They don't have...
...Totem brand sandwich bags contend that they hold more than Union Carbide's Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying...
...recent weeks, rumors have been circulating that Cub owner Phil Wrigley would fire Durocher and hire either Ernie Banks or former Giant star Whitey Lockman. Last season the Cubs stipped to a tie for third place in the National League east with an 83-79 record...
Overdone but Real. The pessimism seemed as much an overreaction as was the market's record rise the day after President Nixon announced his wage-price freeze. Wall Street's expectations clearly had become unrealistic: a few days ago, for example, Chicago's Wrigley Co. reported a 20% rise in third-quarter profits; its stock promptly dropped 30 points, to 132, because investors had been counting on an even greater earnings increase...