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...Lass & Lash. The weirdest tale of all was told by Vickie Barrett, one of the few performers who made no bones about being a prostitute. Drab, docile Vickie (nee Janet Barker) testified that Ward had picked her up one night and taken her back to his apartment to have intercourse with a man who was wait ing naked in the bedroom. In all, said the prosecution, Vickie had some 30 assignations in Ward's apartment but never saw any proceeds; the osteopath pocketed the money, said she, on the pretext of saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...story begins, Fanny is a 15-year-old Lancashire lass who arrives in London and promptly falls into the clutches of a sporting-house madam. Her subsequent adventures are detailed in prose that misses nary an 18th century curlicue. Of one memorable orgy for eight, she relates: "It is to be noted that, though all modesty and reserve were banished from the transaction of those pleasures, good manners and politeness were inviolably observed; here was no gross ribaldry, no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls." After enjoying many another "well breath'd youth, hot-mettled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste: Ye Olde Sex | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...flying trapeze. Juliet (Doris Day) is a bareback rider. A cruel fate divides them. His father (Dean Jagger) owns a circus, her father (Jimmy Durante) owns a circus-and the circuses are rivals. Romeo, sent incognito to swindle Juliet's father, falls in love with the lass instead. Duty at first conquers love, but in the end schmalz conquers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Absolutely Everything | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...important, however, that those of you who are waiting for the opportune moment remember that tonight's meeting is the last chance. Your last chance, of course, not, ours. We couldn't be lass concerned. So you must remember. Oh please, please remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Please, Oh Please | 2/20/1962 | See Source »

...side of the revolving cutout, 4 ft. high, showed a pert teen-ager dressed for her high school prom; the other side pictured the same beaming lass clothed chastely in the religious habit of a nun. "This Could Be You," said the accompanying sign. The display, put up by Wisconsin's Cenacle nuns, was one of 60 competing exhibits that gave Milwaukee's municipal Auditorium and Arena the look of a spiritual bazaar. The occasion: Wisconsin's 16th annual Catholic Action convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Selling Vocations | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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