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...Mama Makes Two. Two days later, Breedlove's wife, Lee, showed that speed is a family affair. A 5-ft. 6-in., 112-lb. mother of five who had never driven anything faster than the family Mustang, Lee tucked her long black hair into her husband's blue crash helmet, strapped herself into Spirit's cockpit and roared off across the salt at 308.56 m.p.h. to break the ladies' record held by Betty Skelton. If anything, she took the experience more casually than Craig. "I wasn't a bit scared," she insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

With the remark "Using Freud's techniques, the band would suggest that frustrating childhood experiences are the reasons for excessive drinking at football games," the band would spell "mama." Eyeing the crowd the ban would then play "This Could be the Start of Something Big" and spell out "trauma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samborski Censors Freud's View of Harvard Football | 11/8/1965 | See Source »

...inherited the magnificent Ringo nose along with the basset-hound jowls. Now, if he can learn to ululate on key-could be. "He's a little smasher," whooped Ringo as he called at London's Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and packed off Mama Maureen and child in a Rolls-Royce to their apartment in Marylebone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Mama, all they want is my body," sobs Jean the bit player, explaining to her sex-centered mother that she has declined to court fame on the casting couch. "I knew you were too young for this business," says Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Jean resists the lecherous counsel of Mama and her sponging stepfather (played with gusto by Raf Vallone) but finds a friend in kindly Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), the actors' agent who in real life raked up most of the muck packed into Shulman's scurrilous bestseller. "You have the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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