WHIPPED AGAIN.(The Talk of the Town)(Whipped Cream And Other Delights)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-APR-06

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Last spring, during the broadcast of the Preakness Stakes, Bob Costas interviewed Jerry Moss, the owner of Giacomo, the horse that had won the Kentucky Derby. He noted that Moss, along with the trumpeter and producer Herb Alpert, had founded A. & M. Records. Near the end of their conversation, Costas held up his old copy of an A. & M. classic, the 1965 Alpert album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights," which, as most American males Costas's age know all too well, featured on its cover a photograph of a young woman clad, rather meagerly, in what appeared to be whipped cream. Costas asked Moss the name of the model. Dolores, he said.

"All hail Dolores!" Costas exclaimed.

Alpert, who happened to be watching...

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