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...accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary-almost unavoidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1965 | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...somebody. On breadlines he asked for toast. When President Johnson declared war on poverty, he went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar. To lose weight he started eating saccharin-and got artificial diabetes. He fell in love with a promiscuous girl, so promiscuous she became a hostess in an alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Dying Pan | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

This latest morsel from the previously published-only-in-Paris works of Olympia Press will disappoint smut lovers everywhere. It is at best a poor scraping from the bottom of the Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Jul. 30, 1965 | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Sally Ann Howes is hostess to the 14th annual event in Miami Beach. Live, but rarely lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1965 | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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