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Borrow and Buy. Such sports-struck businessmen, and other Clevelanders like them, did not get together by accident. They were mobilized by Nick James Mileti, 42, son of Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marshmallow Empire | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 11, 1974 | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Backing up Miss Beckson are the eight Hot Box Girls who handle their Busby Berkeley-ish routines with adequate precision. However, in "Take Back Your Mink," their strip-tease number which features skin-tone body stockings with strategically-placed, appliqued hearts, the Hot Box Girls appear more embarrassed than their audience...

Author: By Matthew Gabel, | Title: Nathan Detroit's Alive and Well | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: An Old Dictator Tries Again | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

Members of the Led Zeppelin toss ice cubes out the windows at passing >| police cruisers and dunk mink-clad women in the swimming pool. Alice Cooper's roadies play nude football in the hallway. The J. Geils Band stages mustard and ketchup orgies in its rooms. Instead of tearing their hair, the hotel's youthful staff (average age: 24) smile benignly. The expanded room service is designed to cater to pimpled artists who prefer milkshakes with their chateaubriands. The crazy has become so commonplace that during an Electric Light Orchestra party recently, a zonked-out groupie was propped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: High at the Hyatt | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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