Agreed. The Edsel Ford discovery is a triumph of curiosity and 
detection; congratulations to the whole Cold Case team. And the 
Eystein passage in PF is now funnier than ever.

 

Brian Boyd

 

On 2/11/2006, at 8:39 AM, Donald B. Johnson wrote:

 

> Dear Steven,
>      You may well be right but remember the Edsel Ford case that we 
> had all
> overlooked for fifty years. The strategy should be to investigate 
> possibilities
> first, before assigning a possible allusion to whimsy, no?
>
> Best, Don
>
>
>
> Quoting Steven <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET>:
>
>>  I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of the
>> early 50s.... but --  Why are you so sure that there's a real life
>> model for the image?  Like a lot of the names and such in his
>> American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
>> generalizing from the specifics of American culture.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Can some one i n my aged age group (or older) identify the 
>>> toiletry  in this description in a TV commercial circa the early 
>>> fifties? The  winner will be immortalized in a footnote.   Don 
>>> Johnson