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...quiet, buxom spinster who shared her New Orleans house with a pair of cats, Biologist McMillan liked to play the guitar and sing folk music, often drove to Baton Rouge, where she was doing basic research on algae. Of all those who expressed grief at her death, no one seemed more upset than Dr. George H. Mickey, 49, topflight scientist, dean of L.S.U.'s graduate school and head of the zoology department. "All of us at L.S.U. are profoundly shocked by the tragic event," said Mickey, "and are particularly anxious that the case be cleared as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Dean & the Professor | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, the daughter of a retired grocer and onetime housemaid in the 27-room triplex Manhattan apartment of the Rockefeller family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: An Ordinary Girl | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Died. Mary Teresa Norton, 84, buxom, bustling New Jersey Congresswoman for 26 years (1925-51), first woman Democrat elected to Congress (first Congresswoman: Montana's Republican Jeannette Rankin-1917-19, 1941-43), a scrappy debater, called by her respectful colleagues "Aunt Mary," who championed her political sponsor, New Jersey Boss Frank Hague, and social legislation; in Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone $1,000 for a round of soft drinks. But in 1931 the Feds closed down her "Country Club" on 58th Street, caught buxom Belle as she tried to skedaddle across the roofscape in red pajamas, and saw her sentenced to 30 days in a Harlem jail, where the warden thoughtfully put her in the prostitutes' ward "because he thought I would be more comfortable there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncommon Bawd | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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