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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is a Nineteen-Twentyish drawing-room comedy that concentrates on a ménage-à-trois: tycoon, wife and mistress. The other woman is the wife of the tycoon's business associate who has already bedded the tycoon's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The Girls Are Marching | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

After a visit to the Paris grave of famed Chanteuse Edith Piaf, his father's mistress, petit Marcel finally arrived at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for his first fight in the U.S. As always, he carried with him cherished mementos of his father: the taped water bottle he always used in the ring, the watch he was wearing when he died, the bloodstained trunks he wore when he dethroned Zale. Whenever anyone mentioned his quest for the championship, petit Marcel spoke the few words of English he had mastered: "It is my destin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Petit Marcel and la Grande Mystique | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

Died. Gypsy Rose Lee, 56, mistress of striptease; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Gypsy was 15 and traveling the vaudeville circuit when she was offered a chance at burlesque. "I was tired of starving so I grabbed it," said Gypsy. By the time she was 17, she was a headliner for Billy Minsky, and went on to display her 5-ft. 9½-in. figure in a succession of top billings: Ziegfeld's Follies, George White's Scandals, Billy Rose's Casino de Paree. Damon Runyon admired her and Walter Winchell spotlighted her in his column. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 11, 1970 | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were gunned down by a partisan and strung by their heels, in a gruesome outpouring of hate. These vengeful murders and two other events in Fascism's twilight-Mussolini's ouster as Premier by his own Grand Council, and Italy's switch to the Allied side-ensured that il Duce would be remembered with a certain sympathy. Today Italians refer quite easily to Mussolini, not by name but as "quello" (that one) or "lui" (he), and the references are often flattering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: After 25 Years: Memory of Two Dictators | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...This is heartbreaking," said Student Paloma Picasso, 21, after a French court refused to recognize her brother Claude as Painter Pablo Picasso's legal heir. Since both Claude and Paloma are children of Picasso's former mistress, Françoise Gilot, the decision seemed to rule out any chance that Paloma might eventually share fully in her father's vast fortune. But it did not leave her entirely without assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1970 | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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