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...HEIR IS BECOMING APPARENT, punned a tabloid headline about Prince Charles' wife Diana. Other headlines read: NAPPY HOLIDAY and BACK WITH A BUMP. The blooming princess attended a dinner two weeks ago after a respite from public appearances. Her condition, pending delivery, has resulted in hundreds of gifts???from Teddy bears to a minithrone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Baby Bloom | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...capital sin except lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pies­last one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen gifts??and a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw up from excitement). Brand names are reeled off at a rate that seems like two per minute­plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Faithful, persistent David O'Shea of Skibbereen, Ireland, courted his fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts???40 of them?one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinach | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw presented to the world, with the season's greetings, three gifts???a play, a speech, a remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Saint Joan* | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

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