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...rewards of message songs are spiritual. Lou Adler, president of Dunhill Records, has noticed a "beautiful change" in his prize songwriter, P. F. Sloan. "Phil's complexion was very bad," he says. "He had acne all over his face. Now it's cleared up-perhaps because his mind has cleared...
Seventeen features pubescent models and a coy vocabulary. With a little effort, the magazine contends, any ugly duckling can end up with a "dream dress," a "dream complexion," a "dream date." In the language of the trade, Seventeen is a "how-to" magazine; it tells how to cook shish kebab, how to jazz up a bedroom, how to avoid going too far with a boy friend...
...civil rights" events? Some of our members are. Whether we are Black Nationalists? Whether we favor separation, integration, Pan-Africanism, socialism, revolution, exodus to...? Mr. Lerner remarked of the refreshing diversity of our viewpoints in his review of The Journal (whose contributors were neither racially nor ideologically of one complexion). This is but one reflection of the breadth and vitality of our commitment to the fullest examination of our peoples' problems. Our organization for that purpose, in this liberal academic community, should be judged by its practical fruits. James W. Wiley...
Quite Enough. The main effect of the bill will be to enfranchise some 3,000,-000 Negroes, mostly Southern. It is impossible to reckon how many will avail themselves of the right. But almost certainly, enough of them will register and vote to change the complexion of Southern politics...
...golden days of La Belle Epoque at the turn of the century, the courtesans of France were famed for their elegance, the dazzle of their jewels, and the high cost of their favors. None more so than La Belle Otero, with her jet-black hair, hourglass figure and enameled complexion. One night at the Café de Paris, five rulers of Europe offered homage at her table-Russia's Nicholas II, Britain's Edward VII, Prussia's Wilhelm II, Belgium's Leopold II and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Otero boasted, "I have been a slave...