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Maniot girls are shy, grave and graceful, with large, luminous black eyes that reminded Fermor of the Madonnas in Byzantine icons. The men shave once a week, and some of them sport the black, eight-inch handlebar mustaches of their piratical forebears. Descendants...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...
Luckily, there is plenty of action to occupy the eye; the girls have a close shave every few minutes. Kicked out of town by the Germans, who don't like to be reminded by their presence of the partisans' power, the fallen women take to the woods, filch food from farmhouses, steal boots and guns from dead Germans, shoot two Home Guards who try to rape them, ambush a Wehrmacht reprisal party, and finally join the same band of partisans that had punished them. Happy ending? Not with 70 minutes still to go. "I must warn...
...MADE IT APPEAR THAT I SIGNED AND CONTRIBUTED TO AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE NEW YORK "TIMES" ON BEHALF OF FIDEL CASTRO. YOU KNOW I DID NEITHER. I NEVER SIGN ANYTHING BUT DEPOSIT SLIPS, AND AS FOR JOINING A GROUP-I EVEN RESIGNED FROM THE AQUA VELVA AFTER-SHAVE CLUB BECAUSE OF THE DISCIPLINE...
Pinder's underwater shave commercial cost Mennen more than $10,000. lasts 60 seconds, was conceived by copywriters at Manhattan's Grey Advertising Agency. Before giving the idea the up thumb last autumn, Grey executives sent out for a 30-gallon aquarium, ordered one of the copywriters to lather up and dunk his head. Later described (with questionable accuracy) as "the first time an account meeting was ever held in a bathroom," the event was climaxed by wild cheers as the copywriter surfaced with Sof' Stroke still on his chin. Nonetheless, one skeptical adman said he could...