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...mother was tiny (under 5 ft.) but determined. She opened a gift shop to keep the family going, and after the 1929-30 crash his father lost his job and never worked again. Says Brother Fred: "Mother was a madam president, but she was never really the president of anything, always just the second level. But Mother used to throw it around: 'I'm a businesswoman,' she would say. John was very hurt by this." Admits Cheever: "It was one of the reasons I left home so early. I'd be damned if I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple toe, and for a foot like yours with so little adhesion between the phalanges of the toe and the metatarsal joint . . ."), but he is desperately unhappy. Bernard has no friends. He burns with hopeless, timid lusts. He lingers before the posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Rut, New Pilgrim | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...meeting in Victoria, campaigning Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was interrupted by a woman who asked what he proposed to do for young married people. "Madam," Menzies shot back, "I gather you are neither young nor married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Landslide Down Under | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...Mister Abbott, an account of his own life-all 76 years of it. Since he has been director, producer, writer, actor or plastic surgeon for 103 Broadway shows of all types except the intellectual-Twentieth Century, Room Service, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Never Too Late-it might have been expected that his book would contain a profusion of insights and smoky anecdotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Printer | 12/6/1963 | 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 »

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