What's
My Line? is a
weekly panel
game
show, which
originally ran in the
United
States from 1950
to 1967 with several
international versions and
subsequent U.S. revivals.
The game tasked
celebrity
panelists with
questioning contestants in
order to determine their
occupations. It is the
longest-running game show in
the history of US
prime
time
network
television.
What's My Line? won
three
Emmy
Awards for "Best
Quiz or Audience
Participation Show," in
1952, 1953 and 1958 and
Golden
Globe for Best TV
Show in 1962.
After
the first four episodes, the
show gained its initial
sponsor: Stopette spray
deodorant made by Jules
Montenier, Inc.
Stopette was the
modern product of its time.
Before the days of the
modern deodorant products we
are familiar today,
deodorant was made in either
cream or liquid.
Stopette was a liquid
deodorant, but it was known
as “The Original Spray
Deodorant.” Why it
was called a spray and not a
liquid was due to the
packaging the deodorant came
in. It was packaging no one
had ever seen before--- the
flexi-plastic
squeeze bottle.
Stopette’s quick work
was known in advertising
lingo as
“Poof!
There Goes Perspiration.”
Dr.
Montenier didn’t sit on
Stopette’s
success .
He created yet another
product. This product was
Finesse, a
new golden colored cream
shampoo. Known as the
“Flowing Cream Shampoo,”.
Finesse
was packaged in an unusual
flexi-plastic bottle known
as the “Accordion
Squeeze
Bottle.” It was
specially designed this way,
so when the bottle was
squeezed, the right amount
of shampoo was poured out---
no more, no less.
While
in the US...in the 50's ...fashion
was "squeezing a finesse"
... in 2010 during the World
Bridge Series the Bridge...the
dilemma was ... the Squezze
or the Finesse ...