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...ridicule, taxes, restrictions. The Coptic language all but disappeared; the tongue of the Pharaohs survives today only in the long Coptic Mass, where it is chanted to the sound of cymbals and triangles. Coptic churches tried to escape attention by being outwardly drab, tucked into back alleys, though gorgeous within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...succession of 21 gorgeous gowns, Actress Roy sang, danced and emoted, proved most popular when she limited her toilette to three strategically placed bits of white fluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: French Dressing | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...seems to me that when a girl realizes she has a gorgeous figure she figures she doesn't have to fool around with higher figures. When a girl is beautiful she either marries, goes into show business or becomes a model. She doesn't go to college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Wellesley Girls Here to Refute Billy Rose's "Pretty Girls Don't Go to College" | 4/16/1946 | See Source »

...start out anxious to find some fresh beauty, a fascinating face, a pretty pair of legs, a gorgeous figure. But I'm convinced that with very few exceptions beautiful girls don't go to college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Wellesley Girls Here to Refute Billy Rose's "Pretty Girls Don't Go to College" | 4/16/1946 | See Source »

...Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Paris in the Spring | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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