“Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. "The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor."”

— Jerry Della Femina

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor (1970), Introduction

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