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Taking mamma's advice to heart, Shamela is soon playing the untouchable so prettily that she sends the squire's temper as well as his temperature up, and he goes around raging, "Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pamela, Shamela | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Members of the Christian Booksellers Association, who met in Chicago last week, could hardly believe the book jackets before their eyes. On one, a girl with a coy come-hither glance was profiled against a street of shadows; on another, a rocket ship looking like a futuristic swordfish zipped across interstellar space; a third, titled Vivid Experiences in Korea, was blocked out with vivid green and orange totem poles. It was all part of Moody Press's current campaign to give soul saving more sales appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jazzy Jackets | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Hither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Time & Tides | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Hephaistos, come forth hither, Thetis hath need of thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer for Moderns | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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