Late night comedians -- and I guess it was only Johnny Carson back then -- had a field day with the commercial for what seemed like years.
In fact, Gibbons died a year after the commercial came out, and though it all seems so fresh in my mind, all that happened about forty years ago.
Rodale was 72 when he died -- a pretty long life actually. Rodale Books and Rodale Inc. are still around and going strong.
Euell Gibbons, I remember, also some other “healthy” lifestyle advocates died suddenly, at relatively young ages, long distance runner Jim Fixx and pro wrestler and health foods advocate Antonino Rocca among others.