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...over the U.S., pet lovers are buying what the trade calls "exotics." Rover, Tabby and Budgie are as popular as ever, but they are being crowded by Huggy the boa constrictor, Beaky the vulture, Stinger the scorpion and many other creepy, crawly, slinky, slithery creatures that once belonged in zoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Unloading the Ark | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

Neferzouzou is a succulent Egyptian mummy who falls in love with a middle-aged American archaeologist, who has dug her, and causes him to abandon his shrill wife. Bertha von Paraboum, identified as Eine Deutsche Kreatur, wears high black boots, a flowing red boa, and a garter. As the loudspeakers blare the sort of martial music that would have stirred Von Ribbentrop, Bertha von Paraboum for the first time turns to face the audience fully, and there, serving as a G-string, is a swastika. Victoria Nankin is billed as "the Yé-Yé Widow." To show her grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: A Sioux in Paris | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed, Jennifer Jones fluttered a huge black boa, but Pepsi-Cola's sociable Joan Crawford, 56, in her diamond tiara, outqueened them all. "Darling, you must be proud of you!" she said to Audrey at intermission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 30, 1964 | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...arrived in visible Cadillacs were, for the most part, fat anonymous cats. Only the sex specialists, like Carroll Baker and Eva Six, tried to take advantage of the occasion-Eva in a dress that would qualify for the gatefold of Man-boy Magazine and Carroll in a feathered boa. "Hey, Carroll, take it off!" screamed the fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Who's There? | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...Vietnamese lost their lives in the 17 hours of battle. As the afternoon wore on, one rebel bomber missed his target with a rocket that exploded on the building where a group of U.S. marines live; a hole blasted in the building merely freed one marine's pet boa constrictor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Revolution in the Afternoon | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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