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Ensign Vernon Berg III, 24, is Navy all the way-son of a Navy chaplain, and a 1974 Annapolis graduate who once dated the daughter of the academy's former superintendent Vice Admiral William P. Mack. He is also an avowed bisexual fighting dismissal from the service for homosexual behavior. At his discharge hearing before a five-officer board last week in Norfolk, Admiral Mack was on hand to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Bisexual and The Navy | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...great dancers. Isadora Duncan, a free-spirited sensation of La Belle Epoque, considered herself built along the lines of the Venus de Milo and often performed her astounding dances wearing nothing but a chiffon shawl. In an adjoining room, the eye-popping costumes of St. Louis-born Folies-Bergère Dancer Josephine Baker provided a contrast to Isadora's severity. One of them was a sequined fishnet leotard, another a skirt of white satin bananas. "I wasn't really naked," Josephine used to say. "I simply didn't have any clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 22, 1975 | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

Works of Poulenc, Berg, Brahms, Schumann, and Stravinsky; Norman Letvin, clarinet, and Larry Berman, piano; Ellot Library...

Author: By Joseph Streue, | Title: Classical | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...York City as "Gotham," to England as "Albion" and to Hollywood as "the fabled Tinseltown." He sees nothing wrong, either, with writing "his scrupulously guarded virginity, hidden for so long on that same lofty pedestal where American Womanhood dwelled, was surrendered to a semiprofessional demimondaine, a Folies-Bergère dancer named Ninette, and was continued with another." (What, exactly, was continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibulography | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Blayne Heckel and Don Berg are a potent one-two punch in the pole vault. Both have flown over 15 feet in the past. The throws will be in the capable hands of strongmen Steve Niemi, Dan Jiggetts, Chris Queen, and Gilbang...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Track: Working for a Comeback | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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