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...treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence was buried in the shell pink satin dress she wore in The King and I sequence called "Shall We Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Last Dance | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...lithe figure in skin-tight satin, she followed up her folk song with some smoldering blues ("Bury me where he passes by"), switched to a playful chant for "I want to be evil and cheat at jacks," then to the piquant for a French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salty Eartha | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...From his satin doublet to the tip of his gilt-handled rapier, John Gerard was the classic Elizabethan gentleman. He was tall and handsomely dark. The son of a noble Lancashire family, he had studied at Oxford, and spoke excellent French and Latin. He was a dashing horseman and a minor authority on falconry and the chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hunted Jesuit | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...COOP'S sensation of last year is available again this Christmas, connoissuers and bon vivants alike will be pleased to learn. The striking, tasteful Harvard Garter is again on sale, at the Coop only for $1.35. Made of black elastic, satin, and lace, with a red satin patch that says "Harvard" in gold letters, this unusual item is guaranteed to enhance the grace of even the shapliest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

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