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...What were men made of, that they could gaze at one girl with their souls in their eyes one moment-and turn as he was turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ploof | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Early Tycoon | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Leader, but Volkov dissuades him: "The point is not to kill Stalin, but to destroy his system." "Deny It." In describing the purges, Novelist Soloviev throws in some sensational details which he does not manage to authenticate as history, but which have at least fictional verisimilitude. Stalin's bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dreams & Dust (Cont'd) | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

With his talent for exploiting all the theatrical possibilities of the female bosom, plus some solid moviemaking savvy, RKO Boss Howard Hughes made his mark in Hollywood years ago. His famed Hell's Angels (1930) made a star of Jean Harlow. He ballyhooed the charms of Jane Russell so successfully that she was a national celebrity long before the public ever saw her first movie, The Outlaw. In its day, too, RKO has been known for making both its audiences and its stockholders happy. As releasing agent for Walt Disney productions, it has gladdened the hearts of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Midnight Sale | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...things nice." "I had people in to dinner, and I had a maid to cook the dinner ... I got a divorce, which is standard. I went to a psychoanalyst-which is standard, too." In a few more years, said her friends, Margaret would be safe in Hollywood's bosom, having things nicer than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God & Mammon | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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