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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought French brands within easier reach of the average American. Mumm's Cordon Rouge and Perrier-Jouët's Grand Brut, both priced at about $20 two years ago, now sell in the U.S. for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Corks Are Apoppin' | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...Fusco went to play for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team. I don't even know who the leading scorer is this year. Mumm, it seems that Fusco came back to Harvard, but he's only averaging ... well, only 2.75 goals a game. But that's only second best in the nation...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Messing With The Team | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

Here the Harvard band redeemed itself. Mired in propriety throughout the day, give or take an occasional shouted grotesquerie ("Break their arms off, break their legs off, we love football!"), they finally came to life. Champagne was produced for the hanky-waving ritual, and the flow of Mumm inspired Will Moore, the 6-ft. 6-in. drum major, to pour a quart or two into his size-13 sneaker and drink from it. Other bandies joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: The 100th Classic | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Wilson gives glimpses of his own bed. Although rotund and stodgy, he never lacked for lovers. He had a reputation as a philanderer. In 1946 he married his fourth and last wife, the aristocratic European beauty Elena Mumm Thornton. Somber, itemized accounts of their love-making suggest that Wilson paid inordinate attention to her feet. "Folded together [her toes] looked so fine and white," he noted. "Sensual pleasures of holding the insteps and kissing the toes at their base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Curmudgeon Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...been placed in an escrow account for the Central Bank of Algeria at the Bank of England. Christopher returned to the embassy, telling reporters as he walked in, "Just say I'm a happy man." Inside the building, embassy staffers were about to uncork 24 bottles of Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne. -By Edward E Scharff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: How the Bargain Was Struck | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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