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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Q. How long have you been posing as a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Confession | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...Q. You mean that you've felt that you were more of a woman than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Confession | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald's Jim fidgeted through a set of spoof Q's and A's. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Summit Simmer | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment. A question-and-answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...month ago with the city's board of estimates. Scrambling for new revenue, they had just about settled on a sewer tax when someone brought in a copy of the next day's Baltimore Sun. On the back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tommyrot in Baltimore | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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