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...yellow hair curling on a pillow, [she] widened her grey-blue eyes and lifted her hands in a surprised, frightened gesture." One newsman got into her hospital room using a bouquet of flowers as a pass key. Others bombarded her with such questions as "Do you sleep in a nightgown or pajamas?" "Will you ever be a mother?" "Do you still have to shave?" "Are your interests male or female? I mean are you interested in, say, needlework, rather than" a ball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Great Transformation | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...recovered his old bounce. The veins that stood out on his forehead and hands during the last days of the campaign were no longer visible. And, most convincing to any wife, Ike remembered Mamie's birthday (her 56th) with a pink wool robe and a nightgown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: On to Washington | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Black Chiffon (by Lesley Storm; produced by John Wildberg) refers to the nightgown that matronly, well-to-do Alicia Christie (Flora Robson) shoplifted off a counter. She had gone out to shop for a dinner party in honor of her son's marriage and she came home facing trial for theft. The rest of the play searches out, with a psychiatrist's help, her motive for so strange an act, and then ponders whether she can use the motive for her defense. She finds that, just as her husband has always jealously resented her being so close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Each month the research librarians answer about 5,000 requests for facts and background material. Some of them are one-of-a-kinds: How much does the U.S. budget weigh? What is a sneeze? Was Julius Caesar a good swimmer? Did Shakespeare wear a nightgown? How much money was bet at U.S. race tracks on Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Balancing gingerly on slippery, icesheathed ladders, firemen hacked with axes at the stubborn screens and bars, taking costly long minutes. Finally they clambered inside. They found one woman, two hours after the fire had started, seated calmly on her third-floor bed; her nightgown was partially coated with ice and she was surrounded by fallen debris. "Are you all right?" a fireman asked. "I think so," she said. Taking her by the hand, he led her to a ladder at an open window. "Some of them were like animals who had something new happening to them and didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death Before Dawn | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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