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Remembering Soupy Sales: Familiar face on 1960s TV

Verne Gay

Verne Gay

Gay is the television critic.

Soupy Sales: Is there anyone out there - from Mineola to Ridge, from Eatons Neck to East Islip - who grew up in front of their TV set in the mid-'60s and doesn't have an absolutely vivid memory of that name, of that face?

Anyone?

Unlikely, because for a brief, shining and (yes) even slightly controversial period, Sales, who died Thursday at 83, was a kids' TV king, and the 75-mile...

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