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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt Jenny), Arlene went on to mysteries (Mr. District Attorney), musicals (Phil Spitalny's show), and THE MARCH OF TIME. In her 20-odd Broadway roles, most of them undistinguished, she played everything from a Russian sniper to the Virgin Mary; but when Hollywood cast her as a prostitute in Murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Perils of Arlene | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mixed-Up Man | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...what Paris turns out. But the excitement over the new 1958 fashions last week was all about the extremes: long, telescopic dresses, tubular coats, enormous, helmetlike fur hats. The styles were so odd, in fact, that the Women's News Service syndicate hired Fashion Expert Iris Hartman, sister-in-law of Dance Satirist Paul Hartman, who took one horrified look and reported: not the New Look, the Mummy Look or the Kept Woman Look, but clothes that looked toadlike. Headlined the New York Journal-American: IT'S GRUESOME LOOK FOR '58. Said Iris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FASHION: A Little Bit Monsterish | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...chief counsel for the rackets committee, it was confirmed here today." The A.P. went on to identify "Mrs. Dave Beck Jr." as one of the guests at the party, which was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel Jr. "in honor of Mrs. Kennedy, who is Skakel's sister." Growing curiouser and curiouser by the sentence, the story quoted Dave Beck Jr. as saying of Bob Kennedy: "Although our policies differ, socially we get along famously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: It Was Crazy | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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