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unusual facts about America Today



MS Mode

Since the take over in 2010, MS Mode resides under Roland Kahn's Exelent Retail Brands, together with Coolcat, Wonder Woman, America Today and Sapph


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Coroplast

Because of the success of this brand, it has become a generically used tradename and many people in North America today refer to all corrugated plastic as "coroplast".

Janice Kaplan

Kaplan has regularly appeared as a guest on television shows including Good Morning America, Today, CBS Early Show, Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.

Nobody Knows My Name

"The Male Prison" originally appeared in The New Leader, December 13, 1954, with the title "Gide as Husband and Homosexual." "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" was adapted from an address delivered at an Esquire magazine symposium on "Writing in America Today" held at San Francisco State College, October 22–24, 1960, and appeared in print for the first time in Nobody Knows My Name.

The Spotlight Kid

Stereo Review acknowledged the album as Beefheart's attempt to "go commercial," while opining that "Captain's conception of commercial is still sweetly weird." Colman Andrews writing in Phonograph Record Magazine described the album as evidence that Van Vliet was "the greatest white blues singer in America today."