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Married seniors and Lampoon Fools also took part in the race pushing baby carriages. The Fools pram inexplicably caught fire, but they had pumps and hose lines ready to put out the fire and to spray the spectators. Later they were tossed into the lake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Race Features Baby Carriage Fire | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Eydie Gorme joined Steve Allen's NBC show Tonight a year and a half ago, she was simply a garden-variety pop singer. Now she can fly across the stage via hidden cables like Peter Pan, do a tap dance, play dramatic skits, deliver commercials for Helene Curtis spray net, and nimbly field and return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Versatile Thrushes | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers of attendants were busy spraying that great brain with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Brain Builders | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...with all the whistle and whee of a Hollywood premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...wings and a curtain that rises instead of falling after each act (a screen of water gushing upward from hidden fountains). Elsewhere, batteries of. fountains play in intricate patterns, illuminated at night by masses of colored floodlights-red, blue, green, flame, flesh pink and moonlight tones. The fountains can spray water at the rate of 840,000 gallons hourly; a single fountain, Old Faithful, shoots jets 140 feet high or fanning out 100 feet wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: $60 Million Bouquet | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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