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...emerged the St. Pauli Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly 16-page paper with a circulation of 700,000, including 3,000 subscribers from as far away as South Africa and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Riding the Sexwelle | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

Kitty Haas advertised their sale on page eight of yesterday's rag. Thanks, Kitty...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Our First Annual January Bargain Tour | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

With a dirty rag stuffed in her mouth to stifle her screams, Mrs. Tsirka testified, she was given some 21 blows. Then she was pushed downstairs to a filthy basement cell. There was barely room to breathe. Holding up the palms of her hands, she described the cell as "eleven palms long and nine palms wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Friendly Chats on Bouboulinas Street | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Jagger is slight, almost frail," wrote TIME Correspondent David Whiting, "and in a howling, Dixie-rag voice he calls out, 'Hi, y'aaalll.' The crowd erupts. The Stones launch into Jumpin' Jack Flash, the guitars driving. Jagger stretching out the syllables, howling notes much like the old Bob Dylan. At the end he cries, 'Are you having a good time?' The bad guy trying to please. Then Carol, bop-bop-bop-bop, a great oldie, good times at the record hop all over again. Jagger leaps about the stage, smirking, jerking, prancing, shooting pelvic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rose Petals and Revolution | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Tiger Rag...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Powerful Tigers Humiliate Harvard, 51-20 | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

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