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Parachute Jump

Jack Benny · 1942 · 29 min · 3,924 words

The transcript of “Parachute Jump”, an episode of Jack Benny from 1942. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Grape Nuts Flakes Program coming to you from Gardener Field near Taft, California and starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester and yours truly, Don Wilson. Today's when it takes common sense as well as dollars and cents to make your food budgets come out right.

Food prices have not only hit the ceiling but in many cases have gone right on up through the roof. You and all yourself, some foods have gone up as high as 75 percent. But one happy exception is tempting sweaters and not Grape Nuts Flakes.

For the average cost of Grape Nut S flakes to you is actually less today than it was four years ago. And with the large 12 ounce economy sized package of Grape Nut S flakes, you get up to 16 helpings at only about a penny a serving.

So here's a thrift-wise, non-rationed basic 7 cereal that's also tops an appetite appeal. You'll never have any trouble selling your family on Grape Nut S flakes. It sells itself with the very first mauled, rich mouthful.

It's the distinctive grape nuts flavor turned out in crisp toasty brown flake form. America's fastest growing cereal grape nuts flakes. You don't give up a single precious ration stamp to buy grape nuts flakes. It has something for the boys played by the orchestra.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, from the recreation hall here at Gardener Field, we bring you that all-time pinup boy, Jack Benny! Thank you, thank you. Hello again, this is Jack Benny talking, and Don, you may have meant that as a gag.

But I am the pinup boy for thousands of wax all over the country. What's the... Really, what Betty Graybell is to the men, I am to the fair sex. Well, tell me, Jack, what's the most popular picture of you that the girls pin up?

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