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When the first siren blows, no shelter for me; I want to be right on target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...turn. In it. were Fayet Esrouer and his pregnant wife, their five-year-old daughter and three relatives. The father was rushing his wife from Beit Méri to a hospital in Beirut, to give birth to her fifth child. Hearing the honking ministerial caravan and the siren of its motorcycle escort, Esrouer excitedly decided to pass the disabled Ford before pulling over to let the motorcade pass him. On the hilltop the confused assassin reached for the plunger a trifle too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death in the Canyon | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...women a year are soothed, massaged and coifed in Madame Rubinstein's Manhattan salon, headquarters of her three-continent chain. A woman who wants to spend an entire day at the salon can spend up to $120 for a series of treatments that would make a siren out of a Westchester matron. First, she is told to change into a black leotard, given paper slippers and a white robe to wear. Her medical history is solemnly taken ("Any operations? How many children?"). After doing exercises in front of a mirror under direction of a Ph.D. from Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...whatever they touch. His best friend, Danny Schorr, begins palling around with gentiles and soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren song with the seemingly inevitable result: she becomes a boozy prostitute and a monument of perfidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heelmarks | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Walter rested not, donned a Spanish hat for a high-stepping mambo with a slithering siren in gold lame. He kicked too high once, groaned an agonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Can WW Save Vaudeville? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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