Word: mixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...
Pointing out that undergraduates come to Princeton "seeking status" Joel Davidow rejected the bi-weekly mixer plan. He produced a counter proposal, "one based on the great American principle of self-restraint." An education committee, composed of Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Elizabeth Taylor should tour the nation pleading for voluntarism at all levels, he said...
Everything was perfect. This would be the night, he reassured himself. As he drove to the mixer, Dudley planned his line of attack to get a date for the Princeton game...
After entering Throckmorton Hall, he headed for the punch bowl. Punch can make or break a mixer, he chuckled to an acquaintance he happened to meet. But Dudley soon slid away from the conversation, straightened his tie, adjusted his Sunday School pin--conversation piece, Dudley called it--and headed into the thick of the dance floor. At most mixers he had had fun overhearing conversations or talking with the boys in Ruby Newman's Band, but tonight was to be different. Dudley tapped the shoulder of a fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like...
...Mixer Dances: Thursday, July 2, and Fridays, July 10-31, in the Harvard Union. George Graham's Orchestra. 50 cents per person...