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...which draw the hearts of young males toward the lovely women whom she ostensibly pictures. The pages teem with agonized girls burning button-down shirts they are trying to iron; with fearful owls who have VC emblazoned on their chests; with dungareed, odd-shaped beauties whanging guitars; and with mink-coated so-phisticates dreaming of palm trees and sun (apparently there is little of the latter in "the Pough...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: What Every Girl Should Know | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...woman in a $5,000 mink coat, who vowed to Fast: "It has to be one way, the only way. You're going to have civil war, barricades, and the workers are going to have to fight and die until blood runs like water in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Night of the Party | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...Fast of these well-heeled Red-liners: "I would hesitate to write this scene in a novel, for it has no sane justification except its truth. This was a handful in one room but all over the nation the mental-revolutionaries, the parlor-pinks, the living-room warriors, the mink-coated allies of the working class wept that people like myself had betrayed the holy cause of Communism-but at least I know what I stepped away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Night of the Party | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...been born. The happy couples have included a Douglas Aircraft executive, two Medal of Honor winners, All-America athletes, an atom physicist, Phi Beta Kappas, a TV producer and Jinx Falkenburg's brother. To each of them went about $2,500 worth of loot. "We were passing out mink coats and deep freezers long before politicians ever thought of it," boasts M.C. Robert Paige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: God & Betty Crocker | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...When the Colorado State Athletic Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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