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...pleaded the auctioneer. "You can't just bid 50-he weighs more than that." The bids went to $55, $250, $300. At the sum of $350 Auctioneer Leonard Bernstein brought his gavel down; thus was Actor Richard Burton, the star of Camelot, acquired by Elsa Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Party Spirit | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Innocence (Argentine Sono Film; Kingsley) is a shadowed, subtle, intense study of purity, sin and degeneracy. A shy, beautiful girl (Elsa Daniel) comes to adolescence in the Argentina of the late '20s. A fanatically puritanical mother has kept Ana from worldly knowledge in the most rigid Latin-American tradition. She is not allowed to see even her own nakedness-she wears a smock when she bathes. Her nanny describes flatly the penalty for unmentioned sins: "Your body will burn for evermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...thinks Esther is a good swimmer. Later on I asked Esther about Rita, and she said Rita is a good dancer . . . Curt Jurgens had a simple party at Cap Ferrat-twelve guests, the butler, the chauffeur, the cook, the secretary, one monkey, five parrots, and two dogs . . . Elsa Maxwell, looking like a weather-beaten hill, stood in the lobby of the Excelsior under a big straw hat which made it hard to tell what was front and what was back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Delinquency in Lions. Mrs. Adamson called her prodigious pet Elsa because it reminded her of a friend (not presumably Elsa Maxwell, the social lion tamer), and is quite formidable in her own way-one of those dauntless dames of the British Empire able to treat the fauna of 120,000 square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Shaw dressed for a Fabian summer school. His job in the Northern Frontier Province of Kenya was to enforce a doctrine of apartheid between man and beast-to see that men did not kill the animals and, as far as possible, that the animals did not kill the men. Elsa was one of a litter of three cubs orphaned when George Adamson shot their mother. As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. Kenya, to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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