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...bought one. Secretaries and shopgirls began to turn up in Hollanderized versions, and though the pelts were sometimes poor and the cut was often sloppy, the fur was undeniably mink. Today mink spills off park benches, stadium bleachers and beauty-parlor coat racks as if it were so much mattress ticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: After Mink, What? | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Awash up to her Plimsoll line in the Mediterranean, Brigitte Bardot, 27, was floating around lazily but spectacularly in a one-piece bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Matunuck, R.I., Theater-by-the-Sea: Robert Rounseville in a new, musical version of that old mattress frame, The Fourposter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...hidden in compartments of imported cars, in ice bags, cans of bean sprouts, jewelry cases, the brassieres of airline hostesses. Only last week, narcotics cops in Manhattan arrested a woman pusher who was sitting on a park bench, rocking her baby in a carriage. Under the baby's mattress was a supply of heroin that the pusher was selling to customers who paused to chuck the baby under the chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Untouchables | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Along Addis Ababa's "Mattress Street," brothels used to be marked with red crosses until the International Red Cross complained that too many Ethiopians were wandering into first-aid stations looking for a treat instead of a treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Troubled Lion | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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