Word: mistressing
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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...
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...
...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...
...willing to go anywhere and do anything Merilee asked of her, converting to Vegetarianism had been an uphill struggle for Girl. To learn to love withered zukini fried in soybean oil, Girl had to fight against the whole history and heritage of the German Shepherd race. But like her mistress, Girl was not long of memory and as soon as Merilee turned her back Girl would turn up her wet nose at the detestable goop. Then Merilee would have to go next door and borrow pig fat to pour over Girl's veggies. Alfred of course was a lifelong...
...randy, and desperate to get "the Lepridon account," Wilson beds down with the wife (Nancie Phillips) of a fellow commuter in the outside playhouse. Sure enough, a TV monitor, installed to oversee children at play, records the grope for the amusement of the guests and the despair of Mrs., mistress...