Long pushed to the periphery of burger joints, sauces—often found in bulky tubs with pump handles, fixin's bars and boxes of packets stashed behind the check-out counter—may soon come to a futuristic ...

This 1964 "ketchup race" ad, the brainchild of Heinz marketer Charles M. Berger, was the first in what became a line of ads stressing Heinz Tomato Ketchup's slow-pouring qualities.

John Thompson Ross Jr., an advertising executive who developed a quirky ketchup commercial for Heinz long before characters on "Mad Men" tried to do the same, died on Jan. 7 in a Fort Myers ...