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...handbags are the most. Smaller than the standard envelope, minibags can be clutched in the hand, slung across a shoulder, hung from the neck or draped from the waist. The smaller the bag, the tinier the tag. One of ten models designed by Manhattan's Shirl Miller, a simple vinyl bagatelle retailing for $8, has sold more than 1 million. Other designs in more elegant materials can cost upwards of $100. The boom in bags has puzzled its beneficiaries. Says Bloomingdale's Fashion Director Janina Willner: "Sales have been phenomenal, and price seems to be no object. Honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Baglets | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...seen patrolling in the pouring rain, the judge related how he had sent his wife and son to Europe last summer to avoid the turmoil. "We considered sending Mark to school in England this year but decided against it. We've got to live in our own country." Shirl Merhige added resignedly: "We live with fear all the time. But our country is changing, and this will pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Judge Under Siege | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Nurses (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Gossett, as guest star, is a gunman hospitalized after having been shot in a holdup. Treating his wounds are the series regulars: Head Nurse Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway) and Student Nurse Gail Lucas (Zina Bethune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...only other medical show is called The Nurses (CBS), none of whom should ever have been registered. The commanding figure is a charge nurse (Shirl Conway) who has the voice and manner of a rich Connecticut matron with old money and old blood. The opening episode took place in a maternity ward and was full of knowing chatter about centimeters of dilation and uterine cancer. Women writhed in pain. One died on the operating table. The dialogue was as phony as the obstetrics. Charge Nurse: "Do you want it straight. Miss Lucas?" Some other time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Bride and Groom: The invitation was marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE and read: "One of the biggest show-business weddings of this era will take place when Shirl Conway, the musical comedy and TV star, and Composer Bernie [Vanessa] Wayne, will be married over the NBC network from 2:30 to 3 p.m., in the Studio Chapel. Guest list: Lena Home, Faye Emerson, Julie Wilson...many other celebrities." On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, as announced. Shirl and Bernie were married-under a sky of klieg lights in Manhattan's RCA building, before a TV audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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