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Particles and Field Department. A paper caricature of Snoopy, the mutt in Peanuts, had ears for wings, rear paws for tail assembly; since it was unflyable, it was suspended from a Kleenex parachute. Australia was represented by a long, beak-nosed glider. "It will probably fly upside down in the Northern Hemisphere," predicted the Qantas executive who sent it to the contest. The only direction it flew on three successive flights was straight down under...
...computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with a Miltown. Relaxing in the evening, he puffs an R. J. Reynolds Reyno menthol cigarette, listens to RCA, Columbia or Capitol records. At bedtime, he fastens his door with a lock made by BKS, a Yale & Towne subsidiary that is the continent...
Throughout Georgy Girl, three girls sitting behind me sniffed into their kleenex and morosely ate chocolate kisses, one at a time. They clearly identified with Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), the dumpy 22-year-old virgin on the screen, and bawled sympathetically for 105 minutes...
Allan Sherman (My Son the Folksinger) did a 60-second job for Brillo and was paid $60,000 plus 3,000 Brillo pads. Harry James wrapped a Kleenex around the end of his trumpet and demonstrated that its blasts would not break the tissue. That was worth $30,000 to him. Now, when he comes onstage in his nightclub appearances, people wave Kleenex at him. Or perhaps Doeskin...
...never opened a supermarket, and I never will. When M-G-M wanted me to let my picture be put on the bottom of 90 million boxes of Kleenex, I refused. 'What could be worse,' I asked them, 'than being in 90 million bathrooms...