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Pretty Vivien Leigh tripped daintily up the narrow, old-fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock. A girl in flowing robes enters, dances around him, and wakes him by provocatively brushing the hem of her gown over his face. In the old version, a flirtation then began. In the Red version, she says sweetly: "How can you sleep while foreign imperialists are sucking the blood of your people?" The shepherd rises, flexes his muscles, recognizes his duty, and exits with the girl into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...have the New Look; you have let down your hem; she has had that dress since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Highly Irregular | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...style of skirt was described as dangerous, unflattering, expensive, and an annoyance to wear. Miss Manuellian caught her heel in the hem of one and all but fell down a flight of stairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Girls Don't Like Hobble Skirts, but... | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Force trainees will receive the same basic instruction as Ground Force students for the first two years, but their Junior year will find hem diverted to subjects indigneous to the Air Corps. More vigorous specialization will take place in the Senior year. On graduation men in this program will be commissioned reserve second lieutenants in he Air Force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army, Navy Reveal Training Programs Plans for 1947-48 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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