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Paul Laffoley has suggested that the futuristic interior was inspired by Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters, completed in 1936.
A member of the S. C. Johnson company's owners, Henrietta Johnson Lewis, married to the advertising executive who handled the Johnson's Wax account, recommended that her husband, John, give the show a chance as a national program for the company.
The show would usually open the 29-and-a-half minute broadcast with the audience in full laughter with Harlow Wilcox announcing, " The Johnson Wax Program with Fibber McGee and Molly!
For most of the show's history, the usual order of the show is the introduction followed by a Johnson Wax plug by Harlow then his introduction to Section 1 of the script ( usually 11 minutes ).
Later, Harlow would meet up and visit with the McGees and work in a Johnson Wax commercial, sometimes assisted by Fibber and Molly.
During the many years that the show was sponsored by Johnson Wax, Fibber nicknamed Wilcox " Waxy ", due to Wilcox's constant praises of their various products, and during the years the show was sponsored by Pet Milk, Fibber changed the nickname to " Milky ".
In a style not unusual for the classic radio years, the show was typically introduced as, " The Johnson Wax Program, with Fibber McGee and Molly.
In addition, Racine is the home of S. C. Johnson & Son, formerly Johnson's Wax, whose headquarters was designed in 1936 by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the Wingspread Conference Center and several homes and other buildings in Racine.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built the Johnson Wax Headquarters building in Racine.
" Hib Johnson refused to have the Johnson Wax Headquarters sited anywhere other than Racine, and in a compromise Wright built it in Racine, but without windows.
Among his accomplishments were assisting Wright in the construction of Fallingwater and the Johnson Wax administration building in Racine.
Peters was responsible for the structural designs of the Guggenheim Museum and for the laboratory tower at Johnson Wax, among many other projects.
His three great works of the late 1930s -- Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Herbert Jacobs house in Madison, Wisconsin -- brought him back to the front of the architectural pack.
The structural design for Fallingwater was undertaken by Wright in association with staff engineers Mendel Glickman and William Wesley Peters, who had been responsible for the columns featured in Wright ’ s revolutionary design for the Johnson Wax Headquarters.
Such buildings as Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House and Mies's Seagram Building in New York City, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters attempted this goal, but many of these designs retained structural artifacts that prevented a consistent, monolithic look.
* 1944 – Frank Lloyd Wright builds the research tower for his Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin.
* 1936 – Frank Lloyd Wright designs his monumental inward-looking Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, USA.
* Johnson Wax Headquarters designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. ( commonly referred to as S. C. Johnson and S. C. Johnson, A Family Company in its commercials ), previously known as S. C. Johnson Wax ( and earlier, Johnson Wax ), is an American privately held, global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin.

Johnson and sponsored
Anheuser-Busch has sponsored the CART championship, and top NASCAR teams such as Junior Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports and DEI.
The Johnson Center serves as the center for student life with many activities and productions sponsored by Program Board and Student Government.
The act, sponsored by Rep. Albert Johnson ( R-Was ), was passed without a recorded vote in the U. S. House of Representatives and by a vote of 78-1 in the U. S. Senate.
Senator Hiram Johnson sponsored the Act that included a passage that forbade loans to nations in default on their debts.
The S. C. Johnson Company preserved more than 700 recordings of the show it sponsored for 15 years.
Sununu called for a tougher federal regulator for government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and with Senator Tim Johnson ( D-SD ), he filed a dramatic overhaul of regulation of the insurance industry.
Unlike liberals, for example, neoconservatives rejected most of the Great Society programs sponsored by Lyndon Johnson ; and unlike traditional conservatives, they supported the more limited welfare state instituted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In the US the original CBS syndication prints had a few variants to the original UK prints, after the brief title sequence the US prints would repeat this sequence but with " Brought to You By " and after the arrow strikes the tree the sponsors name " Wildroot Cream-Oil " superimposed, " Johnson and Johnson " sponsored episodes had a voice-over over the opening titles " Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood " and over the repeated sequence " presented by " followed by the names of two Johnson and Johnson products, images of which would appear over the shot of the arrow in the tree, a commercial featuring one of the products would then be shown, the Wildroot Cream-Oil sponsored episodes would then feature an animated commercial showing a Robin Hood type figure with lanck hair and a dinosaur.
" followed by a commercial for the next week's sponsor before the end titles would be shown, ( Wildroot Cream Oil and Johnson and Johnson sponsored alternate episodes ) the end credits start with the opening sequence, with Sandy Becker mentioning the sponsors name again, and the sponsors product appearing on screen through the end titles which are shown over the shot of the tree.
The act was sponsored by Sen. Frank Church ( D-Idaho ) and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 2, 1968.
In his first two years as driver for the Mountain Dew sponsored, Junior Johnson prepared Buick Regal, Waltrip won 12 races each year, 14 pole positions in each year, and his first two NASCAR Winston Cup Championships, in 1981 and 1982.
Waltrip drove his final race for Junior Johnson November 16, 1986, in a Chevrolet sponsored by Budweiser, finishing 4th, in the Winston Western 500, Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.
The basketball player, Magic Johnson, sponsored this park for people to enjoy themselves and have fun.
In addition, he sponsored the Ben Johnson Pro Celebrity Team Roping and Penning competition, held in Oklahoma City, the proceeds of which are donated to both the Children's Medical Research Inc., and to the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma.

Johnson and show
John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.
During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.
It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian ( Nasher ) Nash imitating ' The Count ' Vampire (" Ha ha ha / I am the count ") from the Children's TV show ' Sesame Street '.
The VIP event was held at the site of the new ballpark at night, featuring a private concert by Pitbull and a fashion show featuring the new uniforms worn by various Marlins players and coaches, including Ozzie Guillén, Logan Morrison, Hanley Ramírez, and Josh Johnson.
Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.
Etheridge quit the band in January 1970, and was replaced by Michael " Cadillac " Johnson ; Johnson was replaced by Dusty Hill the following month: The finalized lineup of ZZ Top performed their first show on February 10, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas.
The show was seen by journalists including Sounds Gary Johnson, who arranged to interview the band a few weeks later.
" In the book accompanying the show, coauthored with Hitchcock, Johnson argued that the new modern style maintained three formal principles: 1. an emphasis on architectural volume over mass ( planes rather than solidity ) 2. a rejection of symmetry and 3. rejection of applied decoration.
Whoopi Goldberg (, born Caryn Elaine Johnson ; November 13, 1945 is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.
The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called " The Charleston " by composer / pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin ' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade.
Prudence Johnson has performed frequently on the show both as a singer and an actress.
According to the New York Times, the coloured champ " won by a wide margin " because Johnson " failed to show anything remotely resembling championship ability.
The show also attracted special guests, such as Pearl Carr, Teddy Johnson and The Beatles.
Anne-Marie Johnson, who played Virgil's wife Althea, summed up what it was like to film the show in the little town of Hammond: " My high school was bigger than this town.

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