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...Games Sensuous Lovers Play" is a self-conscious attempt to be perverted and "The Empress' New Clothes" provides a look at the fall clothing lines of such imaginately named firms as COOP de la Cambridge and Skirt d'Issue, or Maurice de MassAve and Beachnut Buygum. The Cosmo parody does contain one fine cartoon carrying a cut line running "If you had said something funnier, this cartoon might have made the New Yorker." It might be the slogan for the issue...
...earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing. The earl, however, mucks up on this particular occasion, and Tucker discovers him dangling from the proper silk rope, neck twisted like a child...
When he reached his white brick house in suburban Bethesda, Md., he found that his wife Barbara had coolly organized a gathering. "I have a long skirt on and the dog has a bow," she said determinedly. "We are going to have a party tonight." She passed cheese and crackers while the Senator circulated with small talk among 65 friends and neighbors who stopped by. He also warned his staff to avoid any sniping at McGovern. Said he: "I am not critical of anything in this experience in the past week...
...first it seems as if there is no interest in it at all. Baggy unisex clothing de-emphasizes the shape of the body, and in three weeks I did not see a single woman wearing a skirt or a dress. In Peking and Shanghai department stores, though, there was a wide array of skin creams at toiletries counters. At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks - in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange - that were on display. She tittered and said that they were for export. Later, a male...
...Marilyn Maxwell, 49, statuesque blonde film fixture of the '40s and early '50s; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After breaking into show business as a big-band singer, Maxwell found her forte as a straight-faced foil to movie comedians. Frequently cast as a slit-skirt and sweater type, she outlasted many of her Hollywood competitors and managed the transition to television with relative ease. She made many guest appearances on comedy and variety shows, got a regular role in the 1961 Bus Stop series, then successfully returned to cabaret singing...