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Caught in a breakfast-nook indiscretion with a local cop, Mary Hartman begs Husband Tom for forgiveness. Meanwhile, Mary's neighbor Loretta tells Bedmate "Baby Boy" she is postponing her country-music career to become a missionary. Suddenly, the traumas are interrupted by a series of boffo bulletins. "Tonight, we'll tell you more about Howard Hughes' sex habits ... We'll chase a runaway baboon at the airport ... and check out wedding bells behind prison walls ... Be informed and have fun, beginning in three minutes on Metro News, MetroNews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Following Mary | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance, Loretta Young wore a padded body suit to help make her long neck look shorter. Elizabeth Taylor required no padding for Cleopatra, but her 60 changes of costume presented a formidable challenge. "She was five feet two and had difficult proportions: high waist, large bosom, short arms, no behind but wide hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1976 | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Slapstick Tragedy. The most obvious thing about the show is its broad exaggeration of soap-opera calamity. Mary is held hostage by a crazed gunman, then propositioned by the rescuing police officer. Her friend, Loretta, who dreams of a career as a country singing star, is battling paralysis after her car was struck by another car full of nuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...collar crowd from small Southwestern towns. Dressed in DIESEL POWER T shirts and Peterbilt trailer-truck caps, they revel in the dust and noise. For some, off-road racing is an egalitarian country gathering. "My husband is a mechanic and I'm just a small-town housewife," says Loretta Pipkin from El Centre, Calif. "But out here everyone is equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 115-m.p.h. Madness | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...celebrities are ordered alphabetically, you get some pretty stranged juxtapositions. One minute you're at the White House with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who always thought kissing was "a disgusting habit" and seems fairly contemptuous of the whole subject and the next minute you're in Butcher Hollow, Ky., with Loretta Lynn, who got married at the age of 13 knowing so little about sex that by the time she was 17 she had four children and "didn't even know what was causing them...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Guilt, Trivia and a Prolonged Giggle | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

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