Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.


Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir (ed. Da Capo Press, 2009) - ISBN: 9780786739158


Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the ...

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the ...

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the ...

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the ...