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...yielding shell contains a hard-boiled yolk of mercenary ambition, she must serve up her garnished egg at the table of male delectation, all a-shake and atremble with soft-boiled, running-over compliance. It means that the stress must insistently be on the symbols of femininity: bust, bum, legs, lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Merion when he won the 1950 Open. In amateur match play, he was almost unbeatable: in one season, he won 29 of the 30 matches he played. "People expected me to win," he says, "and I expected to win. If I didn't, I felt like a bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prodigious Prodigy | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. This sleazy affair between a Hollywood beach bum (Paul Newman) and an aging cinemama (Geraldine Page) makes a good movie melodrama out of a tiresome Tennessee Williams play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 15, 1962 | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Sweet Bird of Youth. This sleazy affair between a Hollywood beach bum (Paul Newman) and an aging cinemama (Geraldine Page) makes a good movie melodrama out of a tiresome Tennessee Williams play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 8, 1962 | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...year he was performing at a theater called the Bim-Bam-Bum in Santiago, Chile. Performances followed throughout South America until his success brought him to New York last fall. He now has offers of nightclub contracts in Chicago and California and is developing a whole new bouquet of New York sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Music of Sound | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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