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weeds are the chinless boys who go to deb dances in England, affairs that a pear-shaped young English authoress describes as hell's boring. Her book is kind of, too. (See BOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 24, 1963 | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...least it's supposed to be my autobiography. I'm the coronet because daddy is a noble lord. And the weeds are what I call the chinless boys who go to deb dances. It's hell's boring, actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Pictorial, denies that sex looms large in the overhauled paper. The country has entered what he calls the "do-it-yourself" sex age, he says, and Britons no longer need titillation from the tabloids. To prove the point, one Mirror executive held up a picture of a demurely necklined deb and declared: "I defy you to find her cleavage." Nobody bothered to search, for the Mirror can still be counted on to reflect racier stuff. Only last week it ran a picture of Kim Novak that posed no plunging-neckline problem because there was no neckline. In fact, there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sex, Sensation & Significance | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Divorced. Craig Francis Cullinan Jr., 37, Texaco oil heir; by Alison Prescott Cullinan, former Manhattan deb; after 11 years of marriage, one daughter: in Houston. Settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 18, 1963 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...proper Harvard fashion, in a class. "I met her in my short story course," he recalls. "She was brought there by a very good poet who has since become famous--I can't remember his name--and I accosted her and asked her to tea." Miss Kunhardt, a post-deb who was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1948, was then a student at the Graduate School of Education...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: George Lodge at Harvard | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

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