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...true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles of Eros' assortment of original stuff. An article on "Erotomania," for example, turned out to be a scholarly study of lovesickness by Psychologist Theodor (Listening with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enter Eros | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...answer to the questions "Have you over heard of the Duke of Earl?" or "Do you know who the Duke of Earl is?" a large number of people were "really sorry," but didn...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Some of the other responses were: "Is that E-A-R-L?" "That sounds like a non-existent title." "The what?" "Is it on an hour exam?" "Um, I know, just a minute, uh..." "The present Duke of Earl?" "I don't know, but he's probably a big man in Earl." "Was he a Tudor? No. A Stuart? No...Uh..." "How can a Duke by an Earl?" "I think some-one's pulling your...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...still others said "Why do you ask?" (Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Turning up at London's most merciless sacred-cow roast, Queen Elizabeth II chuckled her way through the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe with two other targets: Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Her Majesty's censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 9, 1962 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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