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...Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Confession | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...Magazine, like the fiction that sired it, lives in a world of football weekends and cocktail prty conversation. It has spirit, seriousness, and superficiality...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Button-Down Boobery | 12/17/1957 | See Source »

...publication of his novel will have on Author Pasternak, 67, is questionable. Probably he will survive; he has been out of favor before (in 1946 for bourgeois tendencies), presumably knows how to bow to "human authority" as well as his colleague, Novelist Dudintsev. When asked at a recent diplomatic cocktail party what would become of irksome Author Dudintsev, Dictator Nikita Khrushchev replied blandly: "I intend to see him. He will continue to write, but there will be nothing for which world capitalists will sing his praises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Red Novel, Uncensored | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...drowned him in your cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Cool, Cool Bards | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...American screenplays. His take from Munich-Go-Round: $40 a column, a pittance by U.S. standards, but the highest rate in Munich. On his combined earnings, Feehan lives with a stunning, British-born wife in a small house in Munich's fashionable Harlaching suburb. There Feehan throws cocktail parties for hordes of friends and contacts, happily moves through the crowds with a gallon of martinis (8-to-1) in one hand, and a gallon of Manhattans in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Frank Gordon Martini | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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