Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a small studio in Chicago's station WBBM came an infectious, high-pitched voice: "Hi, kids, my name's Susan." Then the big, fluttery eyes, shiny bangs and friendly full-moon face of Susan Heinkel, 12, brightened the TV screen. After eight ingratiating months as a mistress of ceremonies, star performer and pitchgirl (13 sponsors, e.g., Kellogg's, Pepsi-Cola) on Chicago's most popular local daytime show, Susan was doing her first network edition of Susan's Show over 69 stations (Sat., 11 a.m. E.D.T., CBS). Unruffled and unassuming ("We must remember...
This typical French family is scarcely prepared for the brouhaha and hurluberlu that follow Pippin's elevation to the throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas...
...Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough parting cry: "Un bacio, mamma, addio!" After the intermission, the other local man showed up in Pagliacci, costumed in disreputable red wig, striped T shirt and ill-fitting...
...sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could...
...years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME...