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...eyes and runs heavily to chest. In 1946 she came in second in the Miss Italy contest. She gets the heaviest fan mail of any Italian actress. Her main complaint: producers always want her to do scenes in the near-nude, "as if I were some kind of prize pig." ¶ Eleonora Rossi-Drago (35, 24, 33), one of the few Italian actresses to whom it has occurred that sex might not be enough, tries sophistication too. She has red hair and green eyes, stands 5 ft. 7 in. and is 28 years old. Because her beauty was marred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Portable Pig. A portable, electric disposal unit that sits in a sink and disposes of 1½ quarts of garbage in a minute or two was announced by James. Inc.. of Independence, Kans., maker of portable dishwashers. Water from the faucet pours through the top of the lightweight machine while blades churn the refuse, which is funneled down the drain. The James garbage disposer cleans itself, will not run with the top open. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Sunday Morning Tag. Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bear at Home | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

PORK PRICES will probably drop more than seasonally this fall. The spring pig crop is estimated at 56 million head, 13% above a year ago, and the autumn crop 10% higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...aboard ship, eager to be nice to the white men. It also tells of islands where seemingly mild natives suddenly turned on crews and destroyed them. And there was always the chance that the whalers' crew would run into cannibals and wind up in baking ovens as "long pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Men & Blubber | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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