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Your money or your life - Ronald Colman's Oscar is stolen

Jack Benny · 1947 · 29 min · 3,861 words

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The Jack Fennie Program, presented by Lucky Strike, Lucky Strike and Lucky Strike alone offers you important evidence gathered in the tobacco country by the world-famous Crossley Pole. This evidence reveals the smoking preference of auctioneers, buyers, and warehousemen, the men who really know tobacco.

Here is what the Crossley Pole found. For their own personal smoking enjoyment, independent tobacco experts again name Lucky Strike, First Joy, Lucky Strike, First Joy over any other brand. These experts know their business. Their overwhelming preference for Lucky Strike, we believe, has a direct relationship to the quality tobacco we purchase for Lucky.

And to the real, deep down smoking enjoyment, you may expect from fine tobacco. And when these veteran tobacco experts name Lucky Strike first choice for their own personal smoking enjoyment, then you know LS MFT, LS MFT.

Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. And fine tobacco is what counts in a cigarette. So smoke the smoke tobacco expert smoke Lucky Strike. Remember independent tobacco experts again named Lucky Strike first choice. Lucky Strike first choice over any other brand.

Lucky strike program starring Jack Benny was Barry Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, Dennis Day, and yours, truly Don Wilson. And now, let's go off to Jack Benny's house in Beverly Hills, where we find, hmm, what's there something wrong here?

Where we find Jack down on his knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor. I didn't know a floor to get this dirty. Well, anyway, the floor scrubbed, blooded job. Now let's see, what else is on that list of things I have to do it.

Oh yes, I've already dusted the bedrooms, turned the mattresses, changed the linen on the bed, did the dishes, washed. Hello? Oh, Mr. Berry, this is right, Chef. I just finished 18 holes of golf. Oh, you did, eh?

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