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...forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squid Food | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...vinyl clams, made by J. A. Hagen & Co. after nature's model, in two handy sizes, Big Squirt and Little Squirt, designed to make any shrimp whistle with glee. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...Social Service Board in Recife, 1,200 miles north of Rio, had begun to work on her harem-girl outfit. Last week, shimmying atop her table at the Municipal Theater, she let her husband-a small man in a large tuxedo-have it square in the face with a squirt of ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Too Hot for Rubies | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Prayer by the Squirt. When life is gone, mourning begins. Its variations are endless. Until recently, the Dakota Indians slashed themselves with knives, sometimes even killed themselves in transports of bereavement. The Ovimbundu simply wear a leather thong on the left wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Mongols abstain from marrying for three years. Moslems may call in a professional prayer artist, who prays into an airtight goatskin until he has blown it squeaky-full of airy prayer, which he sells at so much a squirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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