January 1948


Vanity, thy name is Helen:

"Somebody please tell the lady over on 19th street to adjust the horizontal hold on her TV."

"Now just look at 'Helen' over there, with her two daaah-lin' daughters.  With those diagonal stripes, they look like walking barber poles.  Or else those little road signs you see posted at the edge of bridges.  Zig Zag's where it's at, sister."

Buy a Ford truck.  Put a smile on an actuary's face.

So.  DO you remember its many thrills?  Or was it just the "delightful color cartoon" you recall after 60 years?

"We seem to be all out of the navy blue.  I'm don't think your PURE OIL bosses would mind it if we loaned you this spiffy dark-green TEXACO uniform instead."









"Give us a trial?"  Obviously, a different kind of 'drug court' existed in 1948....







12/23/2007 -- 1003 PM EDT

GO TO JANUARY 1958 | RETURN TO "THIS MONTH" PAGE