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...Robert Peel-a reckless spendthrift descended from the Prime Minister who gave his nickname "Bobby" to the English policeman-ended unhappily. Her one child, the last Sir Robert, died when his ship was hit by Japanese bombs in 1942. She apparently never considered remarrying and spurned no less a fig ure than Clark Gable. " 'You lost your son, I lost my wife,' " she quotes Gable as saying. " 'Why don't we get married?' I didn't see the logic, to be perfectly frank . . . Such a lovely...
...collage by Dennis Wheeler that incorporates a stylized face and some of the dark profession's paraphernalia. One of Wheeler's best remembered contributions was for the 1969 cover "The Sex Explosion." He used a color photograph of a nude couple seen behind a giant, zippered fig leaf...
...initialed, touched or was sent. The spectrum of use to future historians is, to put it mildly, wide: the papers range from still-classified material on Viet Nam to a covering note sent by Richard Nixon in 1951 to accompany a 3-lb. box of jumbo deluxe dried California figs, a gift from the California Fig Institute...
...CALCUTTA! (974). Fig leaves are for figs as far as this show is concerned. It is as funny as oldtime burlesque, but far barer and much more chic...
...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...