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Onstage, Songstress Clooney's gestures are deft, her manner friendly. Her working costume is never sexy or slinky, always demure white, usually with a fitted bodice and flaring ballerina skirt. No one knows better than Rosemary that she will never be another Dietrich. "Yeah," she admits, "I guess it's a compliment to be called the wholesome type. With what I've got to work with, as a femme fatale I'm dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wholesome Type | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...little Jewish community had never seen a live actor. What was the theater? Did you eat it with a fork or a spoon? Did you sprinkle sugar or salt over it? Soon they found out. The wandering players had a wide repertory, all the way from Isabelle, Tear My Skirt to Dora, or the Rich Beggar, by Shakespeare, Revised and Improved by Albert Shchupak, Producer and Director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost World | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...sugar, which was supposed to stave off faintness (in at least three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief of the Brigade of Guards, rode on to the parade ground, sitting sidesaddle on a 13-year-old chestnut named Winston. Elizabeth II waved a white-gloved hand to her mother, watching from an upstairs window, then took her place before the towering guardsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queen on Horseback | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Government drilling teams, sent in to open up new artesian wells, could not cope with a drought of this magnitude. Drovers who tried to take their herds south over the regular stock routes that skirt Australia's vast central desert found plenty of well water, but no grazing. Some fodder was brought in, but the cost was prohibitive. In the northern pasture land the water holes began filling up with rotting carcasses. Cattlemen were killing the calves, burning dead beasts in heaps of 50, while crows and kitehawks slowly circled in the cloudless blue sky. Drought toll to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Monsoon That Failed | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Gold Initials. Desi had come to Hollywood to make the movie version of the Broadway hit, Too Many Girls. Taking one look at luscious (5 ft. 7 in., 130 Ibs.) Lucille, who was wearing a sweater and skirt, he cried: "Thass a honk o' woman!" and asked: "How would you like to learn the rumba, baby?" He took her for a ride in his blue convertible, with the gold initials on the door, and she shudderingly recalls that the only time the speedometer dipped below 100 m.p.h. was when he rounded a curve. On the way home, Desi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sassafrassa, the Queen | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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