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...Francisco nightclub, was set upon by two seamen when he repaired to the men's room. Bridges suffered a black eye, puffed cheekbone, kicks in the head, stomach and groin. Said Nightclub Owner Sally Stanford, famed as the onetime owner of San Francisco's flossiest brothel, after having the attackers arrested: "I was shocked at the language used by these two characters." Said Bridges: "I'm used to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

From Leningrad to Baku, the Russians rolled out their flossiest Red carpets last week and strove to outdo the welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S. Jet fighters escorted Sukarno's plane. Guards of honor and equally well-drilled cheering multitudes greeted him at airports with bunting and banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Call Me Brother | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...pleasure domes built along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: Life Begins at 88 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Brownells headed up a receiving line to launch the flossiest debut dance of the capital's coming-out season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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