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...today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio instead of a brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Great & Absurd Suspicions | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Victor Mature, from a bed in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, announced the breakup of his eight-month marriage to Martha Stephenson Kemp, complained that she was a "playgirl." Beautiful Mr. Mature was also suffering itchily from primrose poisoning acquired when he was tarred, feathered and dumped in a bush for a film scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bundles for Brownie | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year-old daughter, Joan. . . . For Clark, Carole stopped, almost overnight, being a Hollywood playgirl. . . . Paulette still entertains her guests, when she wishes, on Charlie Chaplin's yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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