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...through conversations with some of the unhappy ladies." His awesomely exact conclusion: "One in every 544 adult women in Metropolitan London is a harlot." Then dignity-packed Earl Howe, 75, felt compelled to report upon some involuntary research of his own. His lordship's ghastly experience in fashionable Mayfair not long ago: "I was confronted by a female who came out of a side street and stood in front of me. As I tried to sidestep, she sidestepped too, that way and the other way. [Laughter..] It sounds amusing, my lords, but it is not so amusing-really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...replacement, was promptly sentenced to six months as a pimp. So Carmello and Eugene ran the business from Belgium; using Brazilian and Cuban passports, they traveled from Rome to Paris to Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with two more Belgian girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Free Enterprisers | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...sold for about $10,000 his account of how he murdered Setty (TIME, June 16). He became a freehanded spender in the shadier bars of London's West End, and as before, women proved susceptible to his curly black hair and his blue-eyed, open countenance. A hefty Mayfair barmaid lost her $800 savings to Hume but still loves him; a pretty air hostess at London Airport still gets misty-eyed in remembrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hunted Man | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Reluctant Debutante. Mayfair never seemed quite so fair, or so gay, as when Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall do the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and wife Kay Kendall romping through Mayfair, as pixy a pair as ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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