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Page 12 • The Battalion Wednesday • September20,1 Nation Gourmet popcorn popper dead at 88 CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — Orville Re- denbacher, a onetime county agriculture agent who developed a multimillion-dollar line of gourmet popcorn and became a TV advertising star, was found dead in his apartment today. He was 88. He was found in his bathtub around 6 a.m., said Coronado City Manager Homer Bludau. The cause and time of death were un der investigation by the Medical Exam iner’s Office. Redenbacher, known for his trademark glasses and bow tie, was an advertising spokesman who was also The Real Thing: ■ws : an agribusinessman and scientist who worked at improving lines of com for years before he began selling gourmet popcorn on TV. He estimated he cross bred 30,000 hybrids over 40 years before coming up with his own gourmet line. “It’ll be a great loss,” said William E. Smith, executive direc tor of the Chicago- based Popcorn Insti tute, who knew Reden- Redenbacher bacher for 43 years. He and his partner sold the Orville Re denbacher brand in the mid-1970s for a reported S2 million but remained star of its advertising. A native of Indiana, Redenbacher grew popcorn on his family’s farm to earn extra spending money as a youngster. He gradu ated from Purdue University in 1928 a de gree in agronomy, and then worked as a county agricultural agent. He later organized and managed the 12,000-acre Princeton Farms, where he started production of commercial popcorn in 1943. Cl Redenbacher’s popcorn careerrt; took off when he teamed with Bowman and bought Chester Inc., sified agricultural company in Valp; At first, he sold what he called "tl first gourmet popping com" himself, ing by car across the country. He and Bowman had sold popcorn the “Redbow” brand, from their last in the early 1970s, an advertising decided to make the folksy Redenbi the focus of the advertising. In interviews Redenbacher saidb of popcorn developed in the family when he was a child. 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