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...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Knowing Virgin | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...other Houses that won were Eliot, a 20-0 victor over Jonathan Edwards College, and Adams, which beat Dwight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Overcomes Davenport, 12-8 | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

...contests will match Adams and Timothy Dwight, Dudley and Branford, Lowell and Pierson, and Winthrop and Trumbull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Vie With Eli Counterparts | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...provided the party with a power base for 100 years. Why Republicans don't have this similar sense of party feeling has been debated for the better part of a century. One recent reason is that the only President the G.O.P. has had in the last 32 years, Dwight Eisenhower, was a great popular leader with very little sense of party organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: In There Fighting | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...around. Well, anyway, there wasn't a ball in sight, and as the columnist in the London Daily Mail observed, "I've never heard of a golfer shoving the stem of his pipe into the roof of his mouth during a swing!" Harry S. Truman and Dwight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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