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Pert L. Kelton (October 14, 1907 [1] – October 30, 1968) was an American stage, movie, radio, and television actress. [2] She was the original Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason.
Sponsored by Procter & Gamble and Spic and Span, it premiered September 5, 1938 on NBC and moved two months later to CBS, where it was heard from November 7, 1938 to June 21, 1946. Concurrently, it was also airing on NBC from July 3, 1939 to April 25, 1941.
From 1933 to 1944, both families helped run their "Spic and Span Products Company". [citation needed] On January 29, 1945, Procter & Gamble, a major international manufacturer of household and personal products based in Cincinnati, Ohio, bought Spic and Span for $1.9 million. [1] On August 30, 1949, Procter & Gamble registered the "Spic and ...
However, in an earlier publication, the 1960 Dictionary of American Slang, written by Dr. Harold Wentworth, with Flexner as second author, spic is first identified as a noun for an Italian or "American of Italian ancestry", along with the words spic, spig, and spiggoty, and confirms that it is shortened from the word spaghetti.
Hildyard was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. [2] In 1980 he married Isabella Jane Rennie, with whom he had three daughters. They divorced and he later married Lucy Gibson and had another daughter, [2] living at their country house Flintham Hall, Nottinghamshire. [3]
It was formed by the merger of Medtech Products, Inc., Prestige Brands International, and the Spic and Span Company in 1996. The company is headquartered in Tarrytown, New York [1]: 2 and operates a manufacturing facility in Lynchburg, Virginia. [1]: 9
Tim Roney/Getty Images To commemorate three decades of “girl power,” the Spice Girls took fans back to where it all began. “Today marks the 30th anniversary of the very first Spice Girls ...
It Happened to Jane is a 1959 American romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs. It was directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max Wilk . The film was coproduced by Quine and Day's husband Martin Melcher .