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...recalls Zanker. "I thought, 'What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store in 1993 in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSAGE FOR THE MASSES | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Kimberly S. Levin '90 told of a Leverett House escapade in which 20 maids-a-milking helped out, each giving one kiss, real and chocolate, to a pleasantly surprised (male) Santee. And Kevin J. Dolsky '88 said his roommate received a backrub as a gift. "And we got to watch," he added. Some of the other gifts found on campus included a bag of coal and a stash of animal crackers and condoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Secret Santas Hit Harvard's Chimneys | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Quincy House's Jordan Fieldman '87 says that he might have missed out on one of his best presents. His roommate told him that a beautiful woman in a short red dress came to his door to give him a backrub. Fieldman was asleep, so his roommate didn't wake him. "I was made about that," he says...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Secret Santa's Come to Town | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...athletes what they would like to receive for Christmas. Following are some of the more printable of the responses: JIM CALLINAN, Harvard's leading football rusher--To play the Yale Game again; SCOTT POWERS, men's ice hockey--To play in the NBA; ANITA RIVAL, women's swimming--A backrub and an "A" in Chemistry; STEVE FLACH, football kicker--It depends who his Secret Santa is; ROY ROBERTS, rugby captain--Peace on Earth and goodwill towards men and women; DEBBIE KALISH, women's tennis--a year's supply of coffee frappes and bagels with cream cheese from the Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Wishes of Harvard Jocks | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

...looked at each other. They looked down the boardwalk, past the electric skateboards, past the nude roller skaters and the Swede who juggled machetes. God, thought Sammy. He felt hungry so they bought cotton candy, chocolate chip cookies and papaya juice. On the beach, a bearded vendor offered a backrub to anyone who bought his bagels. I would like to try tightrope walking, said Rick as they watched the great whoever tiptoe through the air. But I would not like to try everything. Sammy contemplated the weight lifters in their pen. He eyed the girls, their tiny bathing suits disappearing...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Postcards | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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