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...victim if one's boots are flopping and one's trousers are dropping-but bootlaces and braces are not all that difficult to replace. The only resolution, it would seem, will come when Britain produces a still newer youth fad. In the meantime, Vidal Sassoon's Mayfair salon has capitalized on the current one by offering skinhead hairdos to London's trendiest ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Skinheads | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...that Scientology is worth a second glance.... As to my personal evaluation, after six months of study: I would not be writing this article unless I was convinced that Scientology is worth serious consideration. I feel that I have benefited greatly from Scientology processing. In an earlier article in Mayfair. I said that Scientology can do more in ten hours than psychoanalysis can do in ten years. For what that is worth, I still think so. Scientology is incomparably more precise and efficient than any method of psychotherapy now in use. But, unfortunately, Scientology has duplicated some of the basic...

Author: By (charles F. Allan, | Title: Scientology: The Art of L. Ron Hubbard | 4/21/1970 | See Source »

...message in the window of a bathroom boutique in London's elegant Mayfair district has a familiar ring. It is a takeoff on a couplet* from 17th century English Poet Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." There is nothing familiar about the bathtub for sale inside. It measures a hearty 24 sq. ft., is meant for two-preferably not square-bathers, and is fast becoming the new style in ablutions for the luxury trade around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rub-a-Double-Tub | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...twelve color photos showed a statuesque nude who had been gilded to look like the latest victim of Goldfinger. The spread appeared two years ago in the British magazine Mayfair. Today, recalling her youthful display, 23-year-old Caroline Coon says casually, "It's not the sort of image for a social worker, is it?" For Caroline is now a golden girl of another sort. As one of the organizers of a legal-aid agency called "Release," she has become a protector of youthful British drug addicts and pot users who are in trouble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: Britain's Release | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Cavalier," Margot said, and, Frans Hals notwithstanding, she looked something like him, too, as she happily showed off her Yves St. Laurent jet-black velvet pants suit to a gaggle of photographers and admirers at the opening of Artist Keith Lancey's watercolor exhibit at London's Mayfair Hotel. Her outfit all but stole the show from the paintings, which was O.K. with the artist because she'll wear those same duds again for her new film, Dame Margot the Dancer, produced by, of all people, Keith Lancey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1968 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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