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...that beats retreat belongs to lovely, lazy Lucile, who at 30 has been drifting gracefully through an affair with a wealthy, fiftyish fellow named Charles. She meets Antoine, a young, intense and impecunious publisher's reader, who supplements his income by living with Clare, a middle-aged Parisian hostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbeats in Miniature | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Died. Maurine Doran Clark, 74, wife of retired General Mark Clark, whose 1956 book, Captain's Bride, General's Lady, tells about her experiences in Army posts, where she won praise as a gracious hostess and the tribute "my five-star wife" from her four-star husband; of a heart attack; in Pinopolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Great Society programs, beautification is the one closest to her heart, and future generations are likely to remember her for her campaign to beautify America, much the way Eleanor Roosevelt is recalled as the first First Lady to show up in a coal mine or Jacqueline Kennedy as the hostess who brought chic to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: America TheMore Beautiful | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

SWEET CHARITY is a dance hall hostess, fortune's fool and no one's darling. Her unsuccessful attempts to remedy the situation provide the rather sad story for a very slick musical. As the doxy who requites the unrequited, Gwen Verdon is a dancing dynamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...paths led straight to Ratna Sari Dewi, the lovely young Japanese girl who is Sukarno's sixth and favorite wife.* The Bung met Dewi in 1959, when she was a hostess in a Tokyo nightclub, brought her back to Djakarta with him, and installed her in a large and pleasant villa just outside the city. When Suharto became boss, she took it upon herself to try to serve as an intermediary between the two men, and the General found that she could often talk the Bung into accepting compromises he had rejected from everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Vengeance with a Smile | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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