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Papa Charlie, 74, knows all about pretty young girls and those show-biz types. So it took a heap of persuading before he would allow his eldest daughter (among ten children), Geraldine Chaplin, 19, to set her toe in that direction. But Charlie finally let her enter London's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Thunder's curtain rose on a stageful of workmen still putting the scenery in place. A man in the balcony shouted, "Don't come home too late tonight!" Through a loudspeaker a voice called, "Monsieur Bejart is wanted at the concierge's!" When things quieted down, Puck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: To Beat or Not to Beat | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

No sooner had Maria-dressed in a red lace decollete sheath-given correct answers to eight questions on Greek tragedy (thus qualifying for 640,000 lire, or $1,024) than thousands of televiewers and an excitable press began complaining of her "exuberant body." Harried program directors corralled Italy's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 45-19-39 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Clad in a skimpy peasant smock, and never, never, turning her back to the camera, Miss Lollabridgia prances through her role as the daughter of a recruiting sergeant for Louis' Acquitanian Regiment. She breathes her lines with such feeling and langourous gusto that the shallow hussies of the American screen...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Fan Fan The Tulip | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

The secretaries were not at all pleased by a list of "ten commandments" drawn up by a panel of businessmen. Samples: "Keep the tired businessman's pills straight. Dress with decorum, not decollete; the boss wants to keep his mind on his work. Correct the boss's grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pill for the Boss | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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