Show Business: How To Be Rich Though a Pencil

"Allen. Allen, baby. Can't you do me this one favor? I'll love you forever, Allen, baby."

So pleaded a producer of TV commercials, asking Actor-Announcer Allen Swift to hurry to a recording session. All sorts of people had collected to praise Chesterfield cigarettes, but no one present had sufficient talent to deliver a certain vital line. Swift hurried the five blocks between his Manhattan office and the recording studio, cleared his throat and said:

"Checked all the way by Accu-Ray, they satisfy the most." He left the studio within 15 minutes, not even asking...

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