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...saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother. The Queen herself comes out of Pearl's researches unscathed (save for a regal tendency, noted by Gladstone, to spike her claret with whisky). But Edward VII, her son and heir, was such a celebrated patron of the tarts that La Goulue (Lautrec's model) would call out at the Jardin de Paris: "Allo, Wales! Est-ce-que tu vas payer man champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Improper Victorians | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Raider. In Oklahoma City, Robert Simms Popejoy was fined $7 after he walked into a restaurant, strolled over to one of the booths, blandly took a bite out of a patron's hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Into the Vacuum. Eastland denies that he has ever been a member of a Citizens' Council (or of the Klan). There is no doubt that he has become a kind of patron saint of the councils. Stepping into a vacuum at the heart of the councils, he gave them a philosophy and a voice, and today Southern cities which had barely heard of him two years ago fight for dates on his crowded speaking schedule. Those who manage to get him hear what has become almost a canned speech. In it, Eastland starts from the assumption that the anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Authentic Voice | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...will stop the Irish," declares Daniel M. O'Sullivan, originator of a state legislature bill to make St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday. Blizzard and all, 50,000 wearers of the Green are expected to slosh through South Boston streets at 2 this afternoon, in honor of their patron saint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Defy Weather and Crowd To Lead St. Patrick's Day Parade | 3/17/1956 | See Source »

...Malefactors, it becomes an end in itself, exposing only cliquish gossip. Written with sensibility, if debatable sense, the novel inadvertently reveals that the Lost Generation may not have been lost at all, just born to be led astray and taken in. Was its christener, Gertrude Stein, its patron saint after all, or was it P. T. Barnum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ode to the Expatriate Dead | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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