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Considering her measurements (31-22-32), she got farthest with the leastest as a London model of the 1960s. Now Twiggy, 26, is spreading out. She has added 15 lbs. to her famed 91-lb. frame, recorded an album (Twiggy) of country-and-western music to be released this summer and just completed her first TV acting role. In a British documentary series called Queen Victoria's Scandals, Twigs plays the part of a 19th century spiritualist, complete with straitlaced Victorian corsets. Her expanded measurements (32-24-34) did not require stays, but her costume did. Says Twiggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 10, 1976 | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...town buyers headed home after days of hectic shopping at Manhattan's annual Undergarment Market Week, their order books reflected little interest in the flat look. In scores of Manhattan showrooms, they had gravely inspected parades of full-breasted models wearing bras to make the mostest of the leastest, rather than vice versa. Said one buyer: "It may be chic in New York to be flat-chested, but the rest of American women still have bosoms and aren't really interested in looking like they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Flat Contradiction | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...late Philanthropist Vincent Astor is likely to go down in U.S. tax annals as the multimillionaire with the leastest -for the revenuers. Astor, who died last year at 67, left an estate appraised last week by New York State tax commissioners at an impressive $127,377,021.34. Out of this mountainous greenery came a nadir of sorts in mid-20th century U.S. estate taxes: $253,869.44-less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...long lower jaw; Kerry Lyne, who is (or masquerading as) Gwynne's fiancee throws a hip in the Puddings best hairy-leg tradition. And both Gwynne and Lyne can sing. Nick Benton holds up the awful part of a Cambodian princess with a Brooklyn accent ("The Priestess with the Leastest on the Ball") and does remarkably well...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Buddha Knows Best | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...named C. O. ("Fat") Baker and a pretty, public nurse who once won a county election with the slogan: "You kiss the babies, I'll put their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare state and his sponsorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Early Twitchings | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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