For over a year, California Comic Stan Freberg has been delighting U.S. radio audiences with zany commercials featuring the so-called "Chun Kingston Trio" in such far-out "folk songs" as Oh, Handle Me Down My Walking Chow Mein. Last week, turning to television, Freberg outdid himself on an hour-long "Salute to the Chinese New Year." In his shrewd parodies of familiar television fare, Freberg so amused the critics that they genially forgave him for turning the program into one long plug for Chinese chow, capped by the slogan: "Buy two cans of our...
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