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...Youngman, a comedian of Jessel vintage who has taped 230 of his best-worn jokes for the machine's benefit. The vaudevender, once fed with 100, spews out the desired sweet along with one of Kenny's alltime greats. Sample: "Hey! My mother-in-law tried a mudpack treatment on her face, and for two days she looked great. Then the mud fell...
...wants to put her points down on paper, we shall examine them, as we should the arguments of any member of the public." Angry as Haynes sounded, the museum was well aware of the interest aroused by the tempest. It dusted off the disputed sculpture, cleansed it with a mudpack of fuller's earth, and put it on public display once again...
...synthetic hormones, turtle oils and placenta extracts. The latest lotions are made from, of all things, cows' blood. Developed by the research laboratories of meat-packing Armour & Co., the process uses proteins drawn from the blood to temporarily smooth and fill in furrows, much like a glossy, translucent mudpack. The lotions are invisible on the face, because they react to light the same way that human skin does...
Author Huxley, 65, was one of the few guests seeking rejuvenation by trying not to lose weight but to gain it. At one point he started to giggle under his mudpack, and Anne Marie warned sternly: "Don't laugh. If you do, it cracks." Just possibly, what Huxley was laughing at was the fact that, amid all the scented oils and raw vegetable lunches, no one thought of trying Huxley's own recipe for longevity set forth in his famed satirical novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. The recipe: a steady diet of carp...
Once upon a time, back in the Gay 90s, a barbershop was a place where mustachioed blades could hang out and sing together in mellow harmony. What happened? The mudpack and the facial, the manicure, new-fangled tonics, lotions and powders, whirring electrical scalp treatments-and the barbershop quartet became a sentimental memory. Then, in 1938, a song-happy Tulsa tax attorney (and baritone) named Owen C. Cash organized the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Amateur singers flocked to join the society (25,000 members in 615 chapters in the U.S., Hawaii...