Wednesday, October 21, 2009

You Bet Your Life

Groucho's sponsors were Geritol to give you energy for your day and Sominex to put you to sleep at night. This was less than a generation after the war and in the middle of the fears of atomic annihilation. If you worked up a nervous sweat during the day (or sleeping) there was Lifeboy for a shower. The advertising and consumer needs were very simple.

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