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Limited Offensive. In Pittsburgh, haled into court for seasoning her husband's gravy with rat poison, Mrs. Margaret Kearns declared that she had caught him coming home with lipstick smeared on his shirt, explained that she didn't really want to hurt him: "Rat poison doesn't kill rats. It just makes them sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...college career, except one week when she had a touch of the flu, Mrs. O'Reilly would call Gambit's rooms. It is two in the morning; Gambit has just returned from a hard night of study. He is, however, wearing a tuxedo and he has traces of lipstick on his face. (Gambit had a huge assortment of lipsticks, in all shades--Lipstickmanship was another of his innovations.) The phone rings...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Expert Harvardman Overwhelms Classmates With Policy of Studymanship, Sexmanship | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...college career, except one week when she had a touch of the flu, Mrs. O'Reilly would call Gambit's rooms. It is two in the morning; Gambit has just returned from a hard night of study. He is, however, wearing a tuxedo and he has traces of lipstick on his face. (Gambit had a huge assortment of lipsticks, in all shades--Lipstickmanship was another of his innovations.) The phone rings...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Expert Harvardman Overwhelms Classmates With Policy of Studymanship, Sexmanship | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...toaster (price $20.50, plus $1.74 tax), refrigerator (price $300, tax $25.52), cigarette (price per pack 10?, plus 7¢ federal tax, plus 4? state tax). Even Henry's wife whom he kisses goodbye cost Henry a $2 marriage license-to say nothing of the tax on the lipstick he wipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Burden of Henry Suburban | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Married. Preston Sturges, 52, screen director (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), writer (Strictly Dishonorable), inventor (a kissproof lipstick); and Ann Margaret ("Sandy" Mellen) Nagle, 21, actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; at his restaurant in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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