Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only seven months ago Italy's Communists, starchy with the stiffest kind of bourgeois morality, piously raised their voices in horror at the revelations of "bourgeois decadence" in the Wilma Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were...
Lincoln & Sex. Most of the other car manufacturers were content to take the amount of commercial time normally allowed them under the code of the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters (a maximum of seven minutes in a one-hour evening show). On NBC's Producers' Showcase, in addition to an excellent, if somewhat dated, production of State of the Union, Sponsor Ford devised a pair of inventive commercials. The first, featuring an actor and a model, managed a provocative, if somewhat cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors...
...torrential storyteller who has been compared with France's famed mulatto novelist, Alexandre Dumas, Yerby says: "Dumas was proud of his race, and so am I, but I don't flaunt it." Few of the Southern housewives who buy Yerby's slick melodramas of sex, sadism and violence know that their favorite author is a Negro. Nothing in his stories of strutting white aristocrats, swooning heiresses and yassuhing darkies would declare it, and jacket blurbs, noting that the Georgia-born author formerly taught at Florida A. & M. and Louisiana's Southern Univesity, leave...
Competing Managing Editor Ed Murray of the crime-loving Los Angeles Mirror disagreed: "The case has mystery, society, sex and glamour, but as a day-in-and-day-out story, it has been duller than dishwater." Many another newsman raised the question: Is the Sheppard case worth the space U.S. dailies are giving...
...rubbing table," got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the "orthopedic wench." "For an osteopath," commented the New York Post on Dr. Sam's calm courtroom demeanor, "he hardly moved a muscle." Headlines promised BOMBSHELL DUE AT TRIAL TODAY and NEW SHEPPARD SEX ANGLE HINTED. But no bombs burst, no angles materialized...