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...Charles Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church disguised himself as a Bowery tough and undertook a personal investigation of New York's vice conditions. Dr. Parkhurst's fellow crusader on this foray reported later that Parkhurst had sat "with an unmoved face" in a brothel, watching a troupe of naked prostitutes play leapfrog while Madam Hattie Adams playfully tweaked his whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SACHEMS & SINNERS AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...frontiers to the north. The Vourlon Prison director was fired, and a dozen of his guards placed under investigation (one drenched himself with alcohol and set himself afire as a result), but all for nothing: the birds had flown. "Nobody," cracked one Athens newsman, "ever got out of a brothel so cheap." Meanwhile, across the border in Rumania, the Communist radio urged "all Greek patriots" to assist those who had escaped "from the jails of Americanocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: To the Showers | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...more reality than the island's name: though the crew is alleged to have got drunk and disorderly, to have broken up a dinner-dance, disrobed six of the town's debutantes, sacked the home of the-French governor-under the impression that it was a brothel-and put 38 soldiers in the hospital, there is never a hint of malicious mischief in their fun. A soft reprimand from Fonda is sufficient to calm the most riotous of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Saigon's disinfection, however, there remained one problem. Premier Diem decided not to close down the Binh Xuyen's big brothel business for the time being, at least not before some other suitable line of work could be found for its several hundred girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Voluntary Disinfection | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...point, she suspected that the local native trader was running a backroom brothel in his shop: behind a curtain, "there was laughter and low moaning and exclamations of surprise and delight." As it turned out. the trader was simply charging admission for a look at U.S. magazines. The Atlantic Monthly "is not worth even one peanut with a worm inside." The New Yorker and Esquire were in some demand. "Sometimes a copy of TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three out of Africa | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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