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...Gabrielle was greedy and sent some of her girls into service overseas in Casablanca, Dakar and Damascus, thus qualifying as a white-slave trafficker. Last week plump, double-chinned Gabrielle Gaucher was fined $3,600 and deprived of civil rights for ten years. Her husband Marcel, a gay boulevardier who had lived a happy, dronelike existence on his wife's earnings, could not stand the publicity, and killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Telefilles | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...Senate, Republican Margaret Chase Smith, 62. Handsome Maggie Smith is up for re-election this fall-and she faces the fight of her political life. But whoever wins, Maine will not lose its distaff distinction. Last week the Democratic minority leader of the Maine legislature, popular, plump Lucia Cormier, 48, tossed her bonnet in the ring to oppose Maggie Smith's third-term bid. For the first time in U.S. history, two women are to scrap for a Senate seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ladies of Maine | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Into the composing room of Barcelona's La Vanguardia Espanola rushed plump Publisher Luis de Galinsoga, ordering compositors to restore his name to the paper's masthead. The compositors refused. "Do as I say," cried Galinsoga. "I'm still director of La Vanguardia." Replied the chief compositor: "Not any more you aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bounced by Boycott | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Vanguardia's strange trouble began one Sunday last June during 10 o'clock Mass at Barcelona's San Ildefonso Church. Enraged that the sermon was being delivered in Catalan instead of Castilian, a plump, balding little man protested to a curate, left his card, and stormed out of the church shouting: "Catalan-lleno de mierda! The name on the card was that of Luis de Galinsoga, a Galician who has been La Vanguardia's Franco-appointed publisher since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boycott in Barcelona | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Green has the finest defense pair in the Ivy League in Rusty Ingersoll and Ryan Ostebo. Goalie Tom Wahman may be not only the best in the East, but is such a talented hockey player that he was used last season as a first-line forward. Without plump Dirk Frankenberg to mind the nets this year, coach Eddie Jeremiah has moved the junior back to goal...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson to Meet Dartmouth Sextet In Crucial Game | 2/3/1960 | See Source »

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