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Nearly 500 people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...
...Degree of Prudery, by Emily Hahn. A skillful biography of prim 18th Century British Novelist Fanny Burney. with Samuel Johnson and King George III as supporting characters (TIME, March...
...Degree of Prudery, by Emily Hahn. A skillful biography of prim 18th Century British Novelist Fanny Burney, with Samuel Johnson and King George III as supporting characters (TIME, March...
...skillful biography of prim 18th Cen tury British Novelist Fanny Burney, with Samuel Johnson and King George III, among others, as supporting characters (TIME, March...