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Word: elsas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, though, the Pole was the top of the world for Barber, who has flown 1,000,000 miles since 1953 on assignments that sent him tracking Stanley's route through Africa, exploring a Moroccan smuggling trail, catching an Elsa Maxwell party in the Aegean and a Russian bullet in Budapest. Correspondent Barber, a sandy-haired 46, filed happily about the cold, the hazards, the food, the preparations for welcoming the Hillary expedition from New Zealand (see SCIENCE). He also told how he planted a homemade Union Jack at the Pole. One angle that escaped him: the long-established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Pole | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...intermission she locked herself in her dressing room with her friend, Gossipist Elsa Maxwell, and sobbingly told opera officials outside her door that she could not go on. Because Callas herself had refused to have an understudy at rehearsal, the management had no choice but to cancel the rest of the performance. Cracked an American in the audience: "After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva in Disgrace | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Nobody can tell for sure what it is or why, but the yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Before some 2,000,000 enraptured viewers, Elsa has called Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison "a sewer rat," and allowed that "I have always wanted a falsie more than anything else in my life." Once Spinster Maxwell confessed that she "would just love to have a baby." M.C. Paar cringed and murmured a coast-to-coast aside: "Our first exclusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Cute Girls. Cigar-smoking Elsa, a spry and engaging 74, is an aimless guest on Paar's weeknight show (11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m.), and he may lose her to other commitments. Still, Paar seems to have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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