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...young girl may hot, even with her fiance, lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if they are becalmed, or if they are left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: According to Emily (1922) | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Congressman Elan Bright: A flamboyant fellow, he hires Liz at taxpayers' expense as a kind of sexy mascot, occasionally has her chaperon one of his girl friends shipped in from the home district. But her prime job is to take care of other important legislators-sometimes at orgies staged by him-so that he can win political favors from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Liz Ray's Little Black Book | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...Yuba City last week as the 15,000 citizens mourned their dead. A week earlier a bus bearing 53 members of the local high school choir and Chaperon Christina Estabrook had ripped through 72 feet of guardrail as it turned onto an exit ramp in Martinez, about 80 miles from Yuba City. The bus plunged 21 1/2 feet to the ground. It landed on its top, wheels still spinning and roof crushed down to the seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Luckless City Buries Its Dead | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

Coveys of girls pass outside the pool room window. A few of the girls are going to a local dance. Their mothers will call the chaperon to make sure they have arrived, call again at 10 o'clock to make sure that the dance has concluded and the girls are coming home. Other groups will walk together for hours, transistor radios swinging close to the sidewalk. They go by younger friends with a nod and older, rat, boys with a toss of the head. Perhaps they will meet next week at a dance. No one but a colleege boy does...

Author: By John D. Reed and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: THE NORTH END | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...past two weeks, leading an entourage that included her aunt as a chaperon, her accompanists, a reporter for France Soir and a camera crew filming her every movement for a French TV documentary, Mireille hopscotched from Paris to Manhattan to Dallas to Hollywood, where she signed substantial contracts for two movies and several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Rising Sparrow | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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