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...first, people had trouble taking him seriously. He had, after all, once taken a fully clad dip in Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill pool, and he was always doing things like holding press conferences in Bermuda shorts or showing up for tennis at the Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education in a serious, nonpolitical vein. The audience roared, and Pierre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: No Kidding | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Before the audience are three gorgeous girls. They are talking among themselves. They all look exactly alike. They are indeed the same chick-one in the flesh and two on movie screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectacles: Laterna Magika | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

With muscled men, gorgeous girls and green valleys, the U.S. tobacco industry has long pictured the cigarette as the companion of sex and virility, of glamour and wellbeing. From now on, the industry will have to call a smoke a smoke-and pretty much let it go at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Calling a Smoke a Smoke | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...Died. Gorgeous George, 48, who got nowhere in professional wrestling as plain George Wagner until he changed his name, did his peroxided hair in pageboys and upsweeps, after which wrestling fans gladly paid him $70,000 a year for ten peak years in the late 1940s and early '50s to see him take his lumps from the regular guys; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...Leopard is remarkable at many levels. At the technical level, it is alternately gorgeous and goshawful. Some of the scenes are woolly and want shearing; viewers not recently briefed on Garibaldi may long for time and place clues. Some of the actors, their lips shaping large Italian vowels while the sound track spatters round little English sounds, look a bit like hippos catching peanuts. But the DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Prince Among Men | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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