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Precisely at 10:15, the President and his lady descended the stairs to the entrance hall. Jackie had on a sleeveless, floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Interlude | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Called "Sister" for short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Sister | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Bouffant & Beads. Swirling with Kennedys, Washington society turned itself inside out in its most glittering display in years. Dinner dances, luncheons, buffets, receptions, cocktail parties-they flashed on and off like the lights on an electronic computer. No event could be considered a success without the appearance of at least one Kennedy-and, since there were more than enough Kennedys around, there were few failures on that account. The inaugural committee threw a huge affair at the National Gallery to welcome Bess Truman, the Cabinet wives, the Kennedy and Johnson ladies, and other women of importance; the hall became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The 35th: John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Jackie will probably go right on stirring talk with her high-fashion gowns and bouffant hairdos, but the emphasis will become more American than French. Says Tish: "I don't think she feels she can play favorites among designers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Making a House a Home | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, whose song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance flesh out her personable part as everybody's dream tart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Best Reading | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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