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- <text id=89TT0546>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Advertising
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- Been Lonely Too Long
- </hdr><body>
- <p> He is one of Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not
- hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as
- "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products
- supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor
- Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the
- campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up
- his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon
- Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in
- the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed
- up. Like many corporate superstars before him, he will remain on
- the payroll as a consultant.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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