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...Very Private Affair is a very sad affair. Brigitte Bardot, the once cuddly sex kitten, has grown into a sullen tabby, and though New Wave Director Louis Malle is lavish with cinematic catnip (she pouts, flounces and appears in all sorts of bottomless costumes), nothing seems to bring back the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex Tabby | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...catnip, canny Heinz Weigt has bestowed membership on a sprinkling of industrial and show business high society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Lebensraum at the Top | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Nobody knows exactly what the cat population of the U.S. is. Of an estimated 21 million, half are house cats living in a world of Kleen Kitty and catnip mice; the rest are loners-feline bums who range the nation's alleys, waterfronts and backyards, scrounging, mousing, and yowling for handouts. Dogs (around 26 million) still lead in pet popularity, but cats are creeping up. Canned cat food is a multimillion-dollar industry, and this year sales are up 15% (1960 supermarket sales: $42,150,000). Veterinarians find that it pays to become a cat specialist, and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Keeping Tabs on Tabby | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...that history had passed him by in the mass move of the discontented vote from liberal radicalism to trade union socialism: Lloyd George was too busy being a pasha to be a pundit or a prophet. Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered the phone; the caller' wanted to speak to the mistress of the house. "Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Welsh Wizard | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...Characters. Paar's plans consisted mostly of organized planlessness. During the past year Jack has tantalized a tame lion with doses of catnip, tangled with a pickpocket named Dominique, who lifted his wallet, belt and wrist watch, sweated through a few falls with a professional wrestler named Killer Kowalski. He has worn funny hats, taken off his pants, climbed up the studio walls. But always, the high points were provided by the talkers - guided or goaded, driven or drawn out by Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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