seven minutes in heaven (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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> "seven minutes in heaven"
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> Wikipedia takes the parlor game back to 1953, with an Aug 1953 cite from
> _Jet_ magazine.
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> _Hamilton [OH] Daily News Journal_ 20 Nov 1952 p 30 col 1
> [Newspaperarchive]
> "Teenagers are playing a parlor game called "seven minutes in heaven,"
> in which the young man has the privilege of selecting a girl "and doing
> whatever he chooses." "
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Curiously, though, none of the survivors thought of writing a best-seller afterward about their experience:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/my-son-went-to-heaven-and-all-i-got-was-a-no-1-best-seller.html

Times have changed, alas.  And Heaven ain't what it used to be.

LH
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