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...Aquarium is gone. Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

After going official rounds in Washington, including a state reception at the White House, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko fell into a vacation mood and headed for Manhattan. From a City Hall welcome, Akihito, a noted ichthyophile, dashed a block away to a commercial aquarium-stock store, purchased some rare breeds of fish (imported to await his arrival) and arranged for them to be aboard his chartered plane when he flies back fo Tokyo this week. It was not on the crown prince's official schedule, but he was anxious to say hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

Pinder's underwater shave commercial cost Mennen more than $10,000. lasts 60 seconds, was conceived by copywriters at Manhattan's Grey Advertising Agency. Before giving the idea the up thumb last autumn, Grey executives sent out for a 30-gallon aquarium, ordered one of the copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pinder's Underwater Ode | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...researcher is Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and the HSWC seems to be the only place from which he can obtain the bile. Earlier, Fieser had been forced to go out and catch his own shark when his request to Marineland Aquarium in Florida netted the reply that they could not find the gall bladder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSWC Will Hunt Sharks for Research | 1/27/1960 | See Source »

...developed by patients of all conditions and sizes. (Though the garden was planned for children, adult patients looked on so wistfully that they will get to use it too.) In the greenhouse, in addition to such decorative come-ons as parrots, a cage of finches and an aquarium, is a wading pool so designed that even children in wheelchairs can roll themselves to its edge and swing around to dabble their toes in it without help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Garden of Enid | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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