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What Ever Happened to the Jolly Green Giant, and Other Iconic Spokescreatures?

Alas, life has not been kind to all our old favorites.

Wallace Parry via Wikimedia Commons CC3.0
Green Giant Statue Park at Blue Earth, Minnesota. Wallace Parry via Wikimedia Commons CC3.0
LENORE SKENAZY
LENORE SKENAZY

Recently, I tracked down some of the most iconic spokescreatures in the advertising world.

What had become of Morris the Cat? Charlie the Tuna?

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LENORE SKENAZY
LENORE SKENAZY

Ms. Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a contributing writer at Reason.com, and author of "Has the World Gone Skenazy?"

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