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Whether he strangled, stabbed or beat his victims to death, the Boston Strangler usually left some article of clothing -stocking or bra-tied around the neck in a flamboyant bow that police learned to recognize as his grisly trademark. The obscene indignities he performed on the bodies of the women he killed were never fully reported in the newspapers; some were simply unprintable. Nevertheless, chilling accounts of the killer's bestiality leaked out, compounding the fear that any community feels when a murderer is on the prowl. Women living alone all but barricaded themselves in their apartments; the demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murderer Unmasked? | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...slain lamb, also gave a learned lecture on the "liberation of violent urges through catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Beautiful, Jean-Jacques | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...wish of women around the world to adopt the "American bosom." A friend from England told me that during the war her G.I. boy friend had his mother send her a box of American lingerie. Her figure became an instant attraction as soon as she began wearing her uplift bra, which with care and patching lasted three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Movie Starlet Pamela Tiffin, who is the wife of a serious-minded journalist, was almost undone by her little nothing. She came as Kate in a strapless jeweled bra and one-shoulder toga slashed to the hip by Tiziani; by evening's end, all but one of the four metal anchors se curing the bra had cast loose their moorings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Bared Bodkins | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...pact came just in time. With the Coop fight. Dietz had reached an apogee of protest. Simultaneously he joined the fight to save the Memorial Drive sycamores from the MDC and the fight to save North Harvard Street from the BRA. He even, for the purpose of writing a letter to the Herald Tribune, formed the Society for the Preservation of the United States for Human Beings...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

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