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Royalty & Rest Rooms. Ignored by her family, Lady Mary as a child took refuge in a life of fantasy-she liked to run across the fields in the evening, trying to catch the setting sun. At 19, she had produced several albums of verse and a "handsome bosom" that disputed for attention with dark smoldering eyes. At 24, she married Edward Wortley, coldly handsome grandson of the Earl of Sandwich, who seemed more interested in money than in Mary. Even so, she wrote him hearty letters of political encouragement: "The Ministry is like a play at Court; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady Mary, Quite Contrary | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...between the sexes. "Funny men don't seem to write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape. San Francisco's hungry i, where many comedians got their start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...make their revelations. For the healthy inside look, both Cole and Stewart have contrived necklines that plunge full and wide. Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than risk a head-on stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Less for Sea Than Seeing | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride-to-be gradually diminishing in the curves he admired most. One day he saw her entering a house, from which she emerged with her bosom once again restored to their former significant proportions. Confronted with the evidence of one of Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Antic English in Saigon | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...people agree with America's film critic Moira Walsh, herself a Legion consultor, who argues that something is still wrong with a rating system that can condemn a serious attempt at cinema art like The Pawnbroker for the sole reason that it shows a young woman baring her bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Changing Legion of Decency | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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