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Faith Bacon, ecdysiast extraordinary (she has used fans, fawns, feathers, flowers), sued the University of California for three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University basement, or give them to her. The University decided to give. Weight of the overwhelming gift: nine tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City, N.J. burlesque house, painted the picture on gesso panel in a soft-toned mixture of egg yolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Strip Tease Pays Off | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Gypsy Rose Lee, belle-lettrist, ex-ecdysiast, ex-wife of Actor Alexander Kirkland, fondly regarded her one-month-old son and announced her considered view of motherhood: "It took a long time, but from now on, it's my hobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...clean miss by last year's most professional new cinema outfit. International Pictures (Casanova Brown, Woman at the Window). As a musicomic vehicle for Gypsy Rose Lee, it is hampered not only by its own slowfootedness but by the fact that Miss Lee, America's most literate ecdysiast, has learned to silver-plate her sex with such cultivated English that she suggests Lady Windermere's Fan Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, literate ecdysiast; and Alexander Kirkland, 40, Manhattan actor-producer: their first child, a son; two months after her Reno divorce, one day before his marriage to strawberry-blond post-debutante Phyllis Adams, 21, theatrical tyro (The Snark was a Boojum); in Manhattan. Name: Eric Lee. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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