<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3242">I happened to be flicking through one of these trendy publications plainly concerned very seriously with the financial welfare of trained die-tit-ians (Titians?) and quite possibly readers too. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3432">What do I read at the start of the blathers about De-tox ???</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3434">The man recommends SWISS KRISS !!!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3655"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3646">For years this (I gather) chocolate-packaged loosener of bowels was recommended wholeheartedly if with gradually less weight by our proper hero Louis Armstrong. So who needs the recommendation of a mere member of the profession quacks claim to be members of? <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3654"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3645">Louis said it first !!! <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3644">When in his later and lighter years his enthusiasm for the product was challenged by an English journalist, so far as I recall the observation "you don't look too robust" was met by Louis.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3653"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3652">"Who is robust? Are you robust? If you're robust I must be Sears!"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3651"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3643">So far as I recall my first acquaintance with the name Sears Roebuck was in the discography of Leroy Carr, some of whose recordings appeared on a Sears Roebuck label for sale to customers who had accounts with that long distance mailing business. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3650">What happened to that idea of sales by mail? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3649">Don't answer that! People might accuse you of taking the modern post-World too seriously!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3648"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533314229715_3647">Robert R. Calder <br></div></div></body></html>