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April 1965

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Old Man Pulaski And The Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail
longingly, the kids gazed at the king's ransom of penny candies - the juju babies, the root beer barrels, the mary janes, the licorice pipes- blissfully unaware that the laws of human chicanery were about to shatter their dreams of gustatory glory



ANYONE who has ever experienced a first-degree, big-league, card-carrying, bone-shattering toothache in a major molar at three A.M. in the quiet solitude of night has stood at the very gates of hell itself. There are no words in the language that can adequately describe the ebbing and swelling, ebbing and swelling, then the rising to even greater heights, then again deceptively receding, only to turn again to the attack; the nagging, dragging, thudding, screaking ache of a tooth that has faced more than its share in a hard, rough-and-tumble lifetime of Juju Babies, root beer barrels, jawbreakers, and countless other addictive confections devoured during the innocent days of childhood. Like all sinners, orgiasts of all stripes, we look back with tearful, bleary-eyed nostalgia upon the very thing that reduced us to shuddering, denture-ridden, cavity-wracked hulks. ..


Copyright: 1965 Playboy Magazine

Where Shep Makes Reference To This Subject:
Time Date Category Title
October 14, 1966 Books In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash
• 30:32 March 26, 1965 Radio More on NAB Convention, Bunny Slippers
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April 1965
Playboy - Cover


April 1965
Playboy - Playbill