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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Noisemakers | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Louis, Municipal Opera Company: Penny (Blondie) Singleton and Russell Nype in Call Me Madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...school he was already writing the page-long sentences that make even non-asthmatics gasp for breath. A schoolfellow took him to a brothel, but Proust was appalled; the madam looked like a murderess. At any rate, he was destined for darker vices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advanced Proustmanship | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Breakdown of Communications. In Warwick. R.I.. Fortuneteller Madam Tina complained to police that someone stole her crystal ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...tends to collect around our loins. It's natural for us to seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets to fatten a temple diet of soybean soup and boiled radishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zensation | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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