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...Cards in seven!" read the postcard tacked to the wall of the St. Louis locker room. "Hell," said Cardinal First Baseman Bill White. "I wanted to win this thing in six games." But White knew better than to argue with Fifi LaTour and her Oriental advisers. "Fifi," he said solemnly, "is always right." Well, almost. Old Stripper Fifi, the Cardinals' favorite fortuneteller, did predict that St. Louis would win the National League pennant - on the last day of the 1964 season. Of course, she also predicted that the Cards would need only five games to demolish the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Sweet Taste of Revenge | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...fantastic team batting average of .325. What's more, they were going home to cavernous Yankee Stadium. Said Pitcher Ford: "The Cards will die in Dead Man's Gulch." But the Cards had something going for them, too: a retired stripper in Venice, Fla., named Fifi LaTour, who had been sending them postcards all season long predicting that they would win the pennant. Now Fifi was phoning in her World Series forecast. "She says we won't come back from New York," exulted a Cardinal. "She says we'll win it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Rap on the Knuckles | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Fifi? Say something, Fifi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Rap on the Knuckles | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound is so enthusiastic about his own regeneration that he has offered to gather and deliver fresh oysters daily. Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zoo: Fifi: Si! Bobo? No! | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...brief paragraph that stated whether the girl was blonde, brunette or redheaded-and succinctly described other attributes. Sometimes Gabrielle would interview a client in depth before offering expert advice. On payment of a fee, varying from $20 to $60, the client received the telephone number of the Fifi or Gigi most suited to his taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Telefilles | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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