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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GIRL CALLED AL, by Constance C. Greene (Viking; $3.95). A curiously winning little story about the friendship between two girls and the assistant superintendent in a city apartment building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about it, though, and about the terrible loneliness of war. "The only ones who even worry about you are your mother, your pa and your girl," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Man's Battle | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

What keeps Jaramillo going, he feels, is the letters that his girl, Lydia Terrazas, writes almost daily. Frantic with concern for his safety, she writes him: "Artie, you have so much to come home to, please don't be foolish, come home to me." Jaramillo saves the letters in an old ammunition case, reads them as many as 25 times, then burns them because he knows he has more coming. They provide a link with the "real world." Like most G.I.s, Jaramillo also strings good-luck medals around his neck -including, in his case, one blessed by the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Man's Battle | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...rare award last week, a Parisian judge returned not only damages but the damaged property-a valuable piece of the plaintiff's anatomy-to a French girl named Claudine Perot. During filming of the movie Secret Paris in 1964, Claudine, who was then only 17, allowed a tattoo artist to decorate her buttock with a full-color rendering of the Eiffel Tower. Under the contract, the tattoo belonged to the moviemaker-Ulysee Productions-which probably wanted it for publicity purposes. Accordingly, Claudine had it removed by surgery and gave it to Ulysee. This year, older and a little wiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damage Suits: The Skin Trade | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...earlier stories like The Pupil, whose moral Edel reads as: "Little boys die because they assert their claim to live." James not only returned to the terrible world "of blighted childhoods," Edel observes, he frequently practiced a sort of "spiritual transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short story about children in English, certainly the best modern ghost story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turn of the Screw | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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