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When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...creature was ever prouder or more insolent." Clarimonde, however, has the old ghost-story habit of sucking the blood from her lover's arm so as to keep herself "alive." This allows the distressed hero to come right out with an old-fashioned moral for the clergy: "Never gaze upon a woman, and walk abroad only with eyes fixed upon the ground; for . . . the error of a single moment is enough to make one lose eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunting Season | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Dangerous When Wet. In Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Worker" on the village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Worker | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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