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...will gain an appreciation of the silly from which you may never recover. You may begin to collect windup toys at airports, catalogs of exotic nightwear, and unemployment ads for stun-gun salesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Tricks | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...maybe Maria was ready to quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grandest Diva | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Under the new rules, when a flame touches the nightwear, the fire must be self-extinguishing and leave no charring more than seven inches from the point of contact. To demonstrate, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans touched matches to flammable and nonflammable pajamas on dolls. Coming up next on the Government's agenda: flameproofing standards for mattresses and blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To Save the Children | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...Pajama Game. A bouncy musical about congenial labor-management strife in a nightwear factory; with John Raitt and Doris Day (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Pajama Game. A bouncy, bawdy musical about congenial labor-management strife in a Dubuque nightwear factory; with John Raitt and Doris Day (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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