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...best poker player at Harvard may be a woman. Kitten, a senior at Radcliffe, plays in Harvard's biggest game, where people have been known to bet $10 just from boredom. Betting on the last round can go considerably higher...

Author: By James Morgan, | Title: Kitten Plays for Keeps in the Big Game | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

...from the upper East side, a debutante, the whole bit, went to prep school and when I was 17 my father dragged me away from singing in a place in the Village," said Kitten. Her father taught her how to play poker when she was 12, but it was not until last year that she was able to put the lessons to use. "I started off playing nickel-dime," she says, and now betting $20 or $30 does not bother...

Author: By James Morgan, | Title: Kitten Plays for Keeps in the Big Game | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

...which is running ads that infuriate feminists. The ads promote "brainy" typewriters that are supposed to eliminate some typing errors made by dippy-looking secretaries, who presumably lack the brains to avoid them in the first place. In the TV commercial, the secretary is shown as a vacuous sex kitten who finds that she can attract men by becoming "an Olivetti girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OFFICE: Rebel Secretaries | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...competition clutch, with four on the floor yeah, She purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar . . . She's my little deuce coupe; you don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Putting the Mustang Out to Pasture | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Then there is Sylvia, 11, a charming but unfathomable sprite who is called "Loco Poco." Shortly after arriving in Ephesus, Urie forms an intense friendship with an ignorant but brilliant local boy named Zebulon Walley, whose ego is diaphanous and who attaches himself to the Bishops like a starving kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Women | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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