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...nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited to sneak meetings with a minister's daughter where they flirt with the devil by eating forbidden candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prairie Obit | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...Gamble. Within its own borders, Britain had a whopping surplus ($1.2 billion), but Macmillan refused to flirt with any idea of a tax cut. Instead, he increased taxes on company profits, tacked another few shillings on leaf tobacco to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to 54?, and lifted the subsidy on bread (thus increasing the cost of a loaf to 12?). Mostly he aimed at forcing the public to keep its money in bank or sock instead of buying what should be exported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Flutter on Harold | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Harrison, publisher of Wink and Flirt, switched on his TV set one day and found himself watching the hearings of the Kefauver anti-Crime Committee. "It was a great show--I sat through it to the end," he recalls. "And as I was watching, it dawned on me that this sort of 'inside stuff' was a lot better than cheesecake." Unwittingly, he had stumbled upon the basic formula for a new type of magazine...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Inside Confidential | 10/27/1955 | See Source »

...sleek-haired, gruff-talking showoff, Bachelor Harrison drives a white Cadillac, making the rounds of New York City nightclubs "wherever romance beckons me." Manhattan-born, Harrison started out in publishing after working as a writer for movie trade papers, bringing out such magazines as Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter and Flirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success in the Sewer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant kaleidoscope of expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magic Lingers | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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