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Redundantly voted "The World's Most Muliebrous Woman" by the French Parfum Distributors Association, Cinemactress Tina (God's Little Acre) Louise donned a blue bikini and tucked an orchid in her bosom to receive her reward: a dunk in a bathtub full of Arpege at a Manhattan showroom. Tina sloshed hundreds of dollars of Lanvin's best over the side when she sank in, then slithered out. cooing "Now you can say, 'Promise him anything, but give him Louise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began in 1950 when he was assigned to Alakanuk, on a Yukon delta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Maverick Among Eskimos | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...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 not see the need...

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

...dunk my cracker in a glass of milk; not only does this make the cracker tastier, but it aids in softening the fingernails prior to biting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Individualists | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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