"Philip Kives, master of the infomercial, has died. He was 87. With gadgets like the Miracle Brush and — wait, there's more! — the Veg-O-Matic food slicer, Kives started reeling in customers when he founded K-tel..."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476156142/k-tel-founder-and-infomercial-icon-philip-kives-dies-at-87?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=world
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