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What, exactly, is the technique she mentions in the second panel? Sounds like an alluring set of beach postures, which ought to work. I don't understand the set-up, thought - she's on vacation, right? Did she bring this guy with, and he dumped her once they hit town? Is he a local she met on her Florida jaunt, and she thought they were exclusive?
The right-hand corner tells you to listen to the wackiest wit on the air, Abe Burrows.
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The right-hand corner tells you to listen to the wackiest wit on the air, Abe Burrows. Here's a sample. |
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The legendary Abe, mind you.
As he recalled years later, his show came about while he was scripting a radio show for Joan Davis when George Jessel asked him, "When the hell are you gonna become a professional?" Burrows continued as Davis' head writer while doing his own show. Mixing comic patter ("I guess I could tell you exactly what I look like, but I think that's a lousy thing to say about a guy") with his clever comic songs, The Abe Burrows Show was popular with listeners and critics but not with its sponsor, Lambert Pharmaceutical, then the makers of Listerine mouthwash, but promoting a Listerine toothpaste on the show. Lambert, according to Burrows, complained that the show wasn't selling much of the toothpaste. "It seems that my fans were being naughty," he wrote. "While they were laughing at my jokes, they were sneering at my toothpaste."
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