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...finally, an entrepreneur unlike any other: Jim Moran, 89, who, until he retired in 1985, reigned as supreme master of that most singular marketing device--the stunt. Highlights: he sold an icebox to an Eskimo on behalf of the American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature...
...Kane, an Eskimo from Anchorage, Ak., read a poem by the noted Native American poet Sherman Alexie, titled "Imagining the Reservation...
Counter's scientific research over the years has included mapping the cricket brain, studying acupuncture in the Republic of China and studying why Eskimo men go deaf, which also led to his discovery of the half-Eskimo children of American Arctic explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Peary in Northwest Greenland...
...easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman, given all the bobcat vests and Eskimo boots I used to wear," Bono said in January...
...some trips out to the Arctic for that," Leaf says. "For my soundtrack I had some Eskimo women mimick animal sounds...