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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarming, and left her unabashed (her recent flibbertigibbeting with Ramfis Trujillo got her denounced in Congress as "apparently the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour"). She even broke in on that most cherished of TV sacraments, the commercial, once got Paar so flustered by interrupting his Norelco razor sales pitch ("It will cut him!" she cried) that he screamed: "It won't cut anything!" The audience was delighted. "Just what I expected," bubbled Paar after the show. "She asked me what to do. I said, 'Be yourself.' " He invited Zsa Zsa back for a return match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Prattling Pompadour | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled cell." O'Connor came to the brink of the same fate. "Through lack of a normal sex-life . . . and through drink, delusions set in . . ." A couple of years later, "I phoned a psychiatrist: 'Shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cad's Cad | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Yegg Art. In Baltimore, Josephine Ditmore, convicted of robbing a restaurant and a tailor shop, told the court that she had forced her way in with a nail file, a lady's razor and eyebrow tweezers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...exposed nerves and arteries in the neck. He had no time to prepare the patient for surgery; that is a luxury Giménez Guinea rarely enjoys. He told an assistant to inject antibiotics. Then he went to work with especially sharp, small scalpels with interchangeable blades of razor steel. Don Luis trimmed away dead tissue, sewed the edges of healthy tissue together, dusting the wound with germ-killing sulfa drugs. The most urgent work done, he sent Bienvenida to the Sanatorio, a few blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon of the Cornada | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Preacher Greer and Preacher Walker; he remembers the fish fries on the Catawba River and the swimming hole at Uncle Henry Rhyne's. He remembers, too, the time he played hooky with a pal named Mel McQuarry. When Charlie got home, his father was waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne: "I argued as hard as I could that she shouldn't lick me because I'd already got my beating. I offered to pull down my pants to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FROM COTTON FARM TO BAR PRESIDENCY | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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