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Word: bluebelle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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At the Red Cross charity gala in Monte Carlo, such celebrities as the Begum Aga Khan and Cinemactor David Niven were nicely sprinkled amidst 1,000 unknowns who paid $75 to dance and watch the Bluebell Girls of Paris prance. To the sprinkle, hélas, was added a spatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 28, 1964 | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Even top German women athletes-among them, Olympic Figure Skating Champion Marika Kilius and Sprinter Jutta Heine-look more like starlets than muscle-maids. At the Lido in Paris, where the famed Bluebell girls were once mostly English imports, one-fifth of the dancers are now German. Las Vegas talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Brunnhilde Reshaped | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

The person who ultimately decides where the Bluebells will dance is a leathery little British woman named Margaret Kelly, 50, otherwise known as "Miss Bluebell." A onetime dancing girl herself, she formed the first Bluebell company in 1933, has directly hired all the 6,000 or so Bluebell girls who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Good Big Girls | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Going Wrong Smiling. In theory, a Bluebell would have a hard time losing her virtue. The girls from 16 (minimum age) to 18 must have a chaperone always with them, and the older girls (up to 29) are fired if caught consorting with the customers. No Bluebell ever appears in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Good Big Girls | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Medicine Chest. On the fringes of the swamp live veteran trappers and guides who can recite the ballad without missing a beat, and who know every legend about the dark mysteryland. The swamp water is perfectly potable and is famed for its long-staying qualities of freshness, but it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Swamps & Split Levels | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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