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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Now, there is a Quote Investigator article about the saying in the subject line.

Quote Origin: Success Is a Great Deodorant
Elizabeth Taylor? John Madden? Jason Kidd? Richard Meryman? Derek
Donald? Apocryphal?

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/01/02/success-deodorant/

[Begin Acknowledgement]
Great thanks to Laurence Horn whose inquiry led QI to formulate this
question and perform this exploration. Also, thanks to Ben Zimmer who
located crucial citations in 1964 and 1988.
[End Acknowledgement]

Garson

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 9:32 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > ---
> > 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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