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Said Judge Reeves to the jury before it retired: "They committed coldblooded, heartless . . . first-degree murder . . . I fail to find one line of mitigating . . . circumstances." The jury agreed. On Dec. 18, Carl Hall, wearing black shorts, and Bonnie Heady, in shorts and a halter, will enter the gas chamber at Jefferson City, Mo. and, seated side by side in metal chairs, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Side by Side | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Advertising Federation of America named Ogilvy its "Young Advertising Man of the Year." This week Ogilvy received a more sincere form of flattery. Manhattan's James McCreery & Co. department store, advertising its "Silf-Skin girdle," depicted a buoyant, smiling young model clad in nothing but a girdle, a halter and an eyepatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: One-Eyed Flattery | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...tallest and the strongest of the ten men who save a French Colony from the claws of the Sheik's marauders. In doing so the sergeant wins a medal and a very remarkable princess--very remarkable because she can ride horseback for hours, wearing only gauze pants and a halter, without getting even sore knees...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Ten Tall Men | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...startling. Many of the French styles seemed outlandish to the American eye. Jacques Fath offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most U.S. males would like to see their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Goodbye, Paris; Hello, Hattie | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Bingham's attitude towards polofits into the current pattern of such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

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