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...After seeing your picture of the topless bathing suit [June 26], I can easily guess what comes next: the gownless evening strap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...blooded American, and nuts to you." The reader's gorge had risen over an unchivalrous evaluation of the film actress in Ricketts' column "On the Town": "There are gals in Hollywood who have more sex appeal in their eyelashes than Marilyn can cram into a gownless evening strap. They can also deliver dialogue without sounding like their mouths are full of Purina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Un-100% American | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...senate; the lecturers and demonstrators; and the proctors. These lost are three in number, and they patrol the streets in turn, night by night, dressed in cap, gown, and white tie, and accompanied by the bull-dogs-sturdy college porters in top hats. They look out for drunk or gownless undergraduates, visit prescribed haunts, and take the names of law-breakers. The proctor's first question is: "Are you a member of this University, sir?" Should an undergraduate hope to escape by answering no, and should he be subsequently discovered, he is told that what he said becomes true-that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

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