In the late 1940s, Ron Popeil began pitching his inventor father’s kitchen gadget at a downtown Chicago flea market. Every weekend, Ron would arrive early and prepare mounds of potatoes, onions, ...

Have you heard of Ron Popeil? I’ve written about him before in this organ. He was a sometime Aspen resident and direct marketer who generated around $3 billion through his cheekily named company, ...

Summer is already sending out good vibrations because John Stamos is hitting the road with The Beach Boys. Stamos, 60, will play drums and guitar with the band through September on The Endless Summer ...

In a new series USA TODAY’s The Essentials, celebrities share what fuels their lives. Summer is already sending out good vibrations because John Stamos is hitting the road with The Beach Boys. Stamos, ...

Washboard abs, stain-free carpets, and the ability to dice a tomato with a playing card: Do these promises sound familiar? These are just a few of the claims made by some of the world’s most ...

“I lost five pounds in a little over a week, and I’m so happy. I needed to lose some weight for some modeling pictures that I’m doing so it was just incredible to lose that much weight in such a short ...

If this man’s face (and sweater) rings a bell, you were probably of TV-watching age in the ’90s: (Photo: YouTube) Also known as the “sweater man,” Mike Levey hosted a series of Amazing Discoveries ...

“It chops, it dices, it slices/ It never stops/ Lasts a lifetime, it mows your lawn…/ It picks up the kids from school/ It gets rid of unwanted facial hair/ It gets rid of embarrassing age spots/ It ...

It was in the mid-1950s that kitchen gadgets and housewares made from that “miracle material” plastic began to enter homes en masse. Rubbermaid and Tupperware became household names, but perhaps no ...

In this Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1982 file photo, Ron Popeil, the man behind those late-night, rapid-fire television commercials that sell everything from the Mr. Microphone to the Pocket Fisherman to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Popeil, the ...