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...Bunny Dip is not something one eats with potato chips, but rather, in the words of the one real life Bunny present, "the graceful motion in which the Bunny removes a drink from her tray and places it very gracefully in front of the customer; it takes a lot of schooling for girls to learn how to serve in this elegant manner." Another girl explained it further: "It means they teach the Bunnies to bend sideways so that they don't fall out of their costumes...

Author: By Cathleen Cohen, | Title: Hefner's Brother Scopes Hopefuls As Playboy's Bunny Hunt Hits Hub | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines for K.P. duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Renaissance in the Ranks | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...option on a book called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels. From 164 investors, he raised $250,000 for the show-The Pajama Game. It is still playing on the road, so far has earned $1,850,000. Prince has never since had to worry about backers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millionaires: How They Do It | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Friend of the Family, based on a Parisian stage smash entitled Patate, tells of a nonentity whose nickname means "potato nose," or, more loosely, jerk. Thanks to his longtime enemy, a prominent financier, he has borne that unfortunate nom de pomme since childhood. He avenges himself at last when he learns that the banker is having an affair with his teen-age daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Young, Willing & Ye-Ye | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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