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Purdue yearbook photo of Redenbacher, c. 1926. Orville Clarence Redenbacher was born in Brazil, Indiana, on July 16, 1907, [2] the son of Julia Magdalena Dierdorff (1874–1944) and farmer William Joseph Redenbacher (1872–1939). [2] He grew up on his family's farm, where he sometimes sold popcorn from the back of his car.
Charles F. Bowman (May 3, 1919 – April 8, 2009) was an American businessman who partnered with Orville Redenbacher to create a popping corn which won a third of the US market for unpopped popcorn by the mid-1970s. [1] The corn was marketed as Orville Redenbacher's and is now owned by ConAgra Brands. Charlie Bowman graduated from Purdue ...
Kevin mistakes Orville and Wilbur Wright—the credited inventors of the airplane—for "Wilbur and Orville Redenbacher"—a brand of popcorn. [6] In the last scene, when Jim and Pam resolve their differences, the cut-scene shows Jim's brother Tom reading 1 Corinthians 13 :7–13 from the Bible .
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In the early 1970s, Dixon was among the first television personalities to sell Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popcorn, based in Indiana. During the commercial, the director would superimpose Redenbacher's face (as it appeared on the jar) over Dixon's while he would talk about the product.
Orville Redenbacher's gourmet popcorn company has launched a Facebook advergame called Pop Cam. The game allows players with a webcam to catch flying virtual kernels of popcorn with their mouths ...
Lisa tells Homer: "Some nerds of note include...popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher, rock star David Byrne, and supreme court justice David Souter." Homer replies "Oh, not Souter!"; his apparent familiarity with Supreme Court Justices is a running gag. Mr. Burns asks Homer to "find the jade monkey" in a reference to the film The Maltese Falcon. [1]
Orville E. Babcock, Private Secretary to Grant. The worst and most famous scandal to hit the Grant administration was the Whiskey Ring of 1875, exposed by Treasury Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow and journalist Myron Colony. Whiskey distillers had been evading taxes in the Midwest since the Lincoln Administration. [38]