[Ads-l] "Winning is the best deodorant"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for sharing wonderful further progress, Ben. Also, thanks for
pointing out an entertaining Sunday connection between Mercouri and
Madden, LH.
Garson

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 4:37 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice work on the Liz Taylor front, Garson. One biographer takes it back
> even further:
>
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> https://archive.org/details/elizabethtaylorp0000cash/page/164/mode/2up?q=deodorant
> Ellis Cashmore, _Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption_,
> 2016, p. 164
> It was in the 1964 Meryman interview that Taylor first uttered a line that
> could have served as her motto: "I have learned however that there's no
> deodorant like success."
> ---
>
> The interview with Richard Meryman was in the Dec 18, 1964 issue of _Life_,
> with the quote appearing on p. 82, col. 1:
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=kFEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82
>
> --Ben

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