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...intention of modifying our uniform." During the week, well-blossomed (35-24-36) Suzanne Cripps, 12, was asked to leave St. Helena's school for girls in Eastbourne. Reason: With her mother's consent, and after school hours, she got herself up in shorts and a halter, was photographed by newsmen. Her headmistress looked at the results, decided she was "much too precocious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Style at St. Trinian's | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...reporter was right on top of the news. Just a long swipe away was the four-year-old female bear he planned to wrestle for his story. Holding the bear's halter, 29-year-old Matti Jämsä last week got his news source to nibble some sugar from his palm. But when Jämsä lunged forward to wrestle, the startled bear fouled him by clawing two gashes from the corner of his right eye down his cheek. Blinded by blood, Jämsä was led from the ring a beaten man. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fearless Finn | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms." The weather is no excuse, said Osservatore, for parading the streets -and even St. Peter's Square-in hip-high shorts and halter bras: "Italy is not on the equator, and even there lions have their coats and crocodiles are sheathed in their precious hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Southern Exposure | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Magic on the Stand. Nobody talks a client's language better than Dr. Irving P. Krick, 50, onetime Caltech meteorologist who started the first private weather firm in Denver in 1938. A leading rainmaker as well as a hail-halter (TIME, May 20), Krick now serves 200 companies, 260 radio stations and the Mexican Department of Agriculture. As a controversial proponent of really long-range predictions, Krick insists that daily weather can be foretold as far ahead as several years. His most famous forecast: a magic burst of sunshine for the inaugural committee just as President Eisenhower stepped onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Prophets for Profit | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...styles herself.David, H. Rhinelander '58 of Anne Morrison '59No matter what a girl is doing, Touraine's seems to have the answer. The summer cocktail dress to the left sells for $39.95. The front is waffle pique in white, the back is cotton eyelet in pink. It boasts a halter neck, a bouffant skirt, and a bow in the back. If a girl chooses to lift umbrellas while waiting for a storm outside to quiet down, this beige-and-white striped raincoat (left), lined in olive-green with a pocket on the sleeve is hers for $25. Ideal...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: When the Living Is Easy | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

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