Word: ecdysiasts
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...Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, exposing her social consciousness, went to make a speech, but got lost on Long Island. Outside the swank Rubinstein store in Manhattan, picketers marched, chanting...
When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
...Ecdysiast Lee's Minsky background, rich show-business vocabulary and stage-door gags make her book almost a social document. She has the good sense to leave Spinoza and Proust out of it. The real Gypsy has no need of Proust - or of ghosts...
...join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast Faith Bacon announced plans to go to England as a nurse or ambulance driver. Disguised in cheap clothes and using an assumed name, black-eyed Cinemactress Luise Rainer was discovered working at a child refugee headquarters in Manhattan. Said she: "With world affairs inside out and outside in, this is no time...
Informed that H. L. Mencken has a name for strip-tease artists (TIME, April 29), Teaseuse Gypsy Rose Lee ejaculated: "Ecdysiast he calls me! Why, the man is an intellectual slob. He has been reading books...