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...frozen fresh daiquiri mix (Don the Beachcomber) in a 6-oz. can from which twelve daiquiris can be made by adding ice and rum. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...dessert. Jackie boned up on American history (and got an 89 on her final examination in a special course at Georgetown University), learned golf and water skiing. She has cut her smoking down to five cigarettes a day in deference to his wishes, and like Jack, will drink a daiquiri or old-fashioned before dinner. Under his wife's urgent supervision, Jack became a fastidious dresser, even went to art galleries to inspect pictures with her (he likes seascapes). Dinner parties became a ragout of mutual interests, with conversations ranging from the humanities at Jackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women: Jackie | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...meant to write a novel but had twins by a bandleader instead. Ro and Elsa have come to Havana to make love, with a view to marriage, but when he touches her, she starts to protest: "Not yet . . . It's got to be right ..." Frigid Elsa drinks one Daiquiri after another and does not stop talking until she is unconscious, so Ro lets her drone on and tells his life story to himself and the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fallen Eagle | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...only by Harvard's traditional scorn for Radcliffe, but also by a specific and undeniably inflammatory incident. A few days before a CRIMSON editor had escorted Miss Toni Sorel, contender for the title of "Number One Ommph Girl of the Nation," into the Harvard Yard. Later, over a daiquiri, Miss Sorel had this to say to the press...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Radcliffe Survives Years of Sneers | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

...writing, particularly noting Chambers' use of imagery (e.g., "Like a toad in a pool of petroleum"). All images, explained Dr. Murray, "are vehicles of thought in dreaming and fantasy." He had found other "indefinable qualities [of psychopathy] that experts recognize. It's like tasting absinthe in a Daiquiri . . . Some people can taste it and some people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Some People Can Taste It | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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