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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a record like that, Angela Lansbury surely must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Dame in Mame | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...Jeanne and Harlan Davis tangled with police at a boite they ran called the Golden Nugget in suburban Los Angeles. There, the cops spied ex-Dancer Jeanne, 36, modeling the lower half of a leopardskin bikini without the upper half. Distressed, they arrested the Davises for violating Section 650½ of the state penal code, a catchall law for moral suasion that forbids any act "which openly outrages public decency." Fined $276 and put on three years' probation, the Davises carried their case to a three-judge panel of California's Second District Court of Appeal, which last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Steady as She Goes | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

While rejecting the appellants' contention that Mrs. Davis' "conduct is today's norm," Associate Justice Otto Kaus declared that even today's "family magazines, which no one would think of hiding from the children, have for years played peekaboo with the female breast." In such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Steady as She Goes | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

"Financial Suicide." Untried rookies collected up to $600,000 in bonuses-infuriating established stars, who began playing out their options so they could jump to the other league for more money. "What can you do," asked A.F.L. Commissioner Al Davis, "when a kid who doesn't know beans about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Seven Times Four Equals One | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

The job of repolishing pro football's image falls to ex-Public Relations Man Rozelle. Under the terms of the peace pact, he is now the commissioner of both leagues, at a salary of $85,000 per year. Davis will probably return to coaching. He got the job in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Seven Times Four Equals One | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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