Here’s Mary Hartline from Super Circus for Dixie Cup, America’s #1 paper cup!
At one time, Mary Hartline was the hottest thing on TV.

Happy Easter, to those who celebrate it, and Happy Passover, to those who celebrate it! The Orthodox churches celebrate Easter next week…
It’s been a busy week here, with the A to Z Challenge, all my regular features, and all the additional reading for the Challenge. I’ll be getting to the participant list this week and check out a few new blogs, make some new friends, do basically what I’m supposed to do. It looks like the WordPress version of the A to Z Challenge blog is working all right. At least I haven’t heard about anything going wrong. Let me know if you run into any problems there.
I hope the challenge has been going well for you. I’m doing things a little differently this year, working on the posts on a just-in-time basis. I’m not tempted to give you too much to read at a time.
That’s all at this end, so let’s continue on to…


- Song Lyric Sunday: “The Minstrel Boy” (Song Lyric Sunday, Song of the Day)
- The Palm Sunday Week That Was (The Week That Was)
- E.M.’s Sunday Ramble Prompt No. 19 #em-srp (Sunday Ramble)

- Song of the Day: Lisa Stansfield, “All Around The World” (Song of the Day)
- #atozchallenge: Initial (A to Z Challenge)
- MMMM: The I’s Have It (Monday’s Music Moves Me)
- Share Your World for 11 Apr 2022 (Share Your World)

- Song of the Day: Ann Miller, “Too Darn Hot” (Song of the Day)
- Top Ten Tuesday: KIOA (940 AQM Des Moines, IA), 4/18/59 (Top Ten Tuesday)
- #atozchallenge: Injury (A to Z Challenge)
- TV Draft Round 3 – Pick 1 – Hogan’s Heroes (General)

- Song of the Day: Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together” (Song of the Day)
- Being Bad Is More Fun #1LinerWeds (One-Liner Wednesday)
- #atozchallenge: Ink (A to Z Challenge)

- Song of the Day: White Plains, “My Baby Loves Lovin’” (Song of the Day)
- Writers Workshop: More Pepper And My Favorite Album (Writer’s Workshop)
- #atozchallenge: Inlandsbanan (A to Z Challenge)

- Throwback Thursday No. 34: Learning To Swim (Throwback Thursday)
- Song of the Day: Roy Clark, “12th Street Rag” (Song of the Day)
- #atozchallenge: Inmate (A to Z Challenge)
- #FPQ: Disagree Agreeably? (FPQ)
- Five For Friday: The Buckinghams (Five For Friday)

- Song of the Day: Henry Mancini, “Mr. Lucky” (Song of the Day)
- #atozchallenge: Innate (A to Z Challenge)
- A Nose For Noes #socs (Stream of Consciousness Saturday)

Thanks to:
- (Gypsie) Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
- Afshan
- Alana Mautone
- Ally Bean
- Arlee Bird
- Astrid
- Barbara
- Beth
- Beth Lapin
- Birgit
- Bluenird
- Cheryl Wright
- Christine Bolton
- Crackerberries
- Curious as a Cathy
- Damyanti Biswas
- Dan Antion
- Di
- Don Ostertag
- E. M. Kingston
- Eugenia
- Fandango
- Frewin55
- Fuzzy Panda Barista
- J-Dub
- Jack Connelly
- Janet
- Jeanne
- Jim
- JoAnna
- Kalpana
- Kat
- Lauren
- Lauri Hawley
- Lynn
- Maggie
- Martine
- Max
- Melanie B Cee
- Mike G
- Mom and Ideas
- Monty Vern
- Opinion Piece Podcast
- Paula Light
- Robin
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- Sadje
- Shanjeniah
- Songshine Sounds
- SoundEagle
- Stephen T. McCarthy
- Stine Writing and Miniatures
- tealveyre
- TenaCarr
- The Hinoeuma
- TheDreamGirlWrites
- Tim Brannan
- Wendy
- Willow
- Writing Sparkle
- Anybody I missed
- Everyone who left a “like”
And that wraps up the Easter edition of The Week That Was.

I did just what the commercial said and asked mom for Dixie cups. Begged her really. It was a big fat no! Lol. Too expensive and wasteful. Whenever I saw water cooler and papers cups I made a beeline to score one.
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Same here. We had plastic cups.
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Happy Easter!
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Thanks, Ellen! You too!
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It’s been a busy week for sure. I enjoyed watching the commercial but never heard of Mary with the sequined outfit and platinum hair. Dixie cups were all the rage for a while.
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“Super Circus” was canceled in 1954, so I don’t have any first-hand knowledge of it. Mary was born in Hillsboro, Illinois and went to Northwestern, then stayed in the Chicago area through most of her career. She died not too long ago (2020).
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