Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normally healthy man, he says, when he went to work last November at Specific Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Bayonne, N.J. Stepnowski's job was pulverizing stilbestrol, a finely powdered synthetic drug used in stock-and poultry-raising (TIME, Feb. 15) and in medicine because it acts like a female sex hormone. The company gave him a respirator, and he wore rubber gloves as he worked...
...Scott liven up Saturday evenings, and such variety performances as the Rally Day show, take care of other nights. This year's show, "Quelques Chose", featured Charles Addams, Yale (though they liked the Harvardman's gift of the "Fruit of the month"), and a song whimsically entitled "No Sex After...
...incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...
Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
Women were a pet peeve. They were "of three sexes-the fair sex, the bare sex, and the blare sex." Even though she knew his reputation as "The Wickedest Man in San Francisco," Socialite Mollie Day, daughter of a rich Forty-Niner, married him in 1871. It was not a happy match, and after 17 years and three children they separated. Meanwhile, Bierce went on writing grotesque and macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws...