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Moving In. By that time Comrade Leonilde Jotti, graduate of a Roman Catholic university in Milan, onetime language teacher, wartime partisan and postwar Red Deputy, had become Togliatti's mistress, though 27 years his junior. So completely did the buxom, black-haired girl from Reggio Emilia capture the affections and feed the ego of the brilliant, moody Togliatti that he got a legal separation from his wife, Rita Mon-tagnana, a white-haired intellectual, and went off to live with Nilde Jotti in a high-walled villa on Rome's Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: La Compagna | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from Fellow Poet Kenneth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two of a Kind | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Summer Splash. He had first met Princess Sabiha Fazilet on the French Riviera two years ago, when she was 14. They met again beside the Bosporus this summer. Taking his ease aboard the royal yacht Queen Aliyah, the young King found himself often in the company of buxom Princess Fazilet, whose ancestors were for centuries the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The tall, athletic girl towered over Feisal, but she soon took to wearing flat-heeled shoes, and she was undeniably handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Preferred Blonde | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...scores of Atlantans at parties beside her swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call her Candy") in Atlanta's smart Westminster School for girls, she automatically became a candidate for the Social Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cash & Capital Gains | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...only a year when she entered, and won, her first tournament: the girls' championship of the Negro American Tennis Association's New York State Open. That same summer (1942) she got to the semifinals of the A.T.A.'s national championship for girls. She lost to a buxom teenager named Nana Davis (now Nana Davis Vaughan), and Mrs. Vaughan still remembers her appalling manners: "She was a very crude creature. She had the idea she was better than anyone. She said, 'Who's this Nana Davis? Let me at her.' When I beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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