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...American television crews were lying in wait outside the exclusive Sovietskaya Hotel last week, when the frumpy woman in fur hat and buttoned-up coat appeared in the company of a burly escort. Since Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, 58, returned to Moscow last month after 17 years in exile in the West, she has been playing hide-and-seek with Western reporters. She reacted in anger to the latest ambush. "I am not going to talk to you, not one word," she snapped. "You have no right. You are uncivilized people. You are savages." When asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Home | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...common male fantasy: ladylike in the living room, the woman turns unbelievably bawdy in bed. Advertised discreetly in the Yellow Pages as the "Finesse" escort service, Sheila Devin's Manhattan apartment was host to trim, elegant women, who for as much as $2,000 a night would allegedly indulge wealthy clients in their wildest dreams. What no one could have imagined when she was arrested last week was the true identity of the woman behind the scenes. A professional madam at night, Devin by day was Sydney Biddle Barrows, of the New Jersey Biddies, one of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case of the Classy Madam | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...allegedly run a 20-girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring, one of the largest known to New York police. In her own way, the blond, slim, plain-faced patrician was as fastidious and thrifty as any of her Puritan ancestors. Recruiting models, actresses, some housewives and students from escort service ads and personal contacts, Barrows conducted grueling interviews. Besides good looks, she insisted upon intelligence and, above all, "eloquence." The chosen few were rated A, B or C in ascending order, depending on their talents, the A's receiving about $125 an hour, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case of the Classy Madam | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...says Maggie. "Well, they do confide in me," sighs Margaret. "I've always kind of gotten to know the customers, been attached to them. You become like family, become concerned." When a blond named Barbara stands by the piano to sing Guess Who I Saw Today, her escort, named Ben, says to the entire circle, "She was after me and after me, and we'd break up over it, and finally I thought, what the hell, and I said let's do it, let's get married. And she said no. That hurt." Funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Isn't It Romantic? | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...night, well into his routine, he spots an attractive blond who reminds him of his wife; Madden joins her and her escort, learns that he is a lawyer and that both of them are visiting from California. Madden makes a conversational play for the woman before his memory blacks out. The next morning he wakes up with a hangover and a new tattoo on his right arm; he discovers that the passenger seat in his Porsche is covered with blood. Then the acting police chief calls him in and suggests that Madden move his hidden cache of marijuana before state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killing Time on Cape Cod | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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