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Query: PF's Pirouetting nymph? (and Edsel Ford)
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Agreed. The Edsel Ford discovery is a triumph of curiosity and
detection; congratulations to the whole Cold Case team. And the
Eystein passage in PF is now funnier than ever.
Brian Boyd
On 2/11/2006, at 8:39 AM, Donald B. Johnson wrote:
> Dear Steven,
> You may well be right but remember the Edsel Ford case that we
> had all
> overlooked for fifty years. The strategy should be to investigate
> possibilities
> first, before assigning a possible allusion to whimsy, no?
>
> Best, Don
>
>
>
> Quoting Steven <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET>:
>
>> I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of
the
>> early 50s.... but -- Why are you so sure that there's a real life
>> model for the image? Like a lot of the names and such in his
>> American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
>> generalizing from the specifics of American culture.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the
>>> toiletry in this description in a TV commercial circa the early
>>> fifties? The winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don
>>> Johnson
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detection; congratulations to the whole Cold Case team. And the
Eystein passage in PF is now funnier than ever.
Brian Boyd
On 2/11/2006, at 8:39 AM, Donald B. Johnson wrote:
> Dear Steven,
> You may well be right but remember the Edsel Ford case that we
> had all
> overlooked for fifty years. The strategy should be to investigate
> possibilities
> first, before assigning a possible allusion to whimsy, no?
>
> Best, Don
>
>
>
> Quoting Steven <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET>:
>
>> I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of
the
>> early 50s.... but -- Why are you so sure that there's a real life
>> model for the image? Like a lot of the names and such in his
>> American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
>> generalizing from the specifics of American culture.
>>
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the
>>> toiletry in this description in a TV commercial circa the early
>>> fifties? The winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don
>>> Johnson
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