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...college hangouts since her middle teens, music became the core of her existence after she joined a local rock group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. "I might be the first hippie pin-up girl," she wrote back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman's new publicist, Myra Friedman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Students looking forward to returning to Harvard's usual weekend choice of ten $1 film favorites may find movie pickings slimmer and more expensive this Fall...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Life in Cambridge Went On Without You | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

HUBERT HUMPHREY. He is a little slimmer than before, a bit more modishly dressed, and he is trying to shorten his speeches. But basically he is campaigning as he always has-ebulliently, unbowed, as if the heartaches and setbacks of recent years had never occurred. He is reminding the party how much it owes to him -and many of the voters, especially older people, union members and blacks, gladly acknowledge the debt. For Humphrey, it is do or die, a last hurrah at 60 or a gratifying comeback. His organizations in most of the primary states are not very extensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Style of the Contenders | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...mammary obsession that Playboy profitably discerns in Americans. Says Publisher Tattilo: "The U.S. is a matriarchy. I think this is the reason for the American male preference for women with exaggerated, voluminous bosoms, true wet nurses with a reassuring maternal aspect." The women she chooses for Playmen are slimmer, cooler, more urbane and more mature than Hefner's coed cuties. Hefner's girls giggle and eat ice cream; Tattilo's taste centers on women who might smile over a Campari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women, Not Girls | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...lunch trade is holding steady in many of the better restaurants, but even the midday period is grim in the funereal precincts of Wall Street. At Eberlin's, a financial-district favorite, volume is off 10% to 15%. For major hotels, the banquet and convention business offers slimmer pickings because companies are sending fewer people on combined business-pleasure jaunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: Slump du Jour | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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