Death of a (Toilet Paper) Salesman
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
As Dick Wilson, the man who played Mr. Whipple, left us on Monday for clouds even softer than Charmin’s, it’s hard not to mourn the era he took with him: The era when we loved the ad icons that we later grew to hate, that we later ended up loving again, albeit somewhat ironically, as representatives of a sweeter, more gullible, less perfectionist time.
That era.
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