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...chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with a jeweled slipper.) Someone reminded Kay that she will soon be deluged with baby showers. Said she: "Oh, dear! I've just finished thanking everyone for our wedding presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They're Playing Our Song | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "lean and slipper'd pantaloon," "second childishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Glass Slipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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