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Such observations, appearing daily, have established Ricketts as the leader of a Far East cult whose followers exist mainly to revile him. "Your tastes coincide with a slob," raged one such. "I stick pins in your column only in the hope that you will not sleep at night." An American film exhibitor in Tokyo, infuriated by Ricketts' reviews, made him a standing offer of free air passage home; when Ricketts allowed that he found Elvis Presley's "hiccuping" intolerable, students at Yokohama High School wrathfully formed a Send Al Ricketts to Mars Club. Recently, the irate husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Un-100% American | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination. "I'm a slob," he announced. "My taste is gaudy. I'm useless for anything but racing cars. I'm ruddy lazy, and I'm getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 13, 1961 | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...home no one is squeezing her. She even leaves her blouse open to attract her husband when he returns from work, but the husband's reaction is: "Why don't you get dressed?" Any man who says that to Kim Novak isn't even a slob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Kirk Douglas is a slob and an architect at work on a mountaintop house that will one day be occupied by a bachelor novelist (glibly played by Ernie Kovacs) and his mistress of the moment. Douglas has a successful marriage and one little boy, over whose head he is warned by his attractive wife (Barbara Rush) that "martinis don't mix with s-e-x." "What's s-e-x?" inquires the youth. "Is it like Santa Claus?" Daddy, at any rate, is full of the Old Nick. Symbols clank as Douglas and Novak meet at a roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...acrimonious custody hearing, Anna Kashfi turned on her ex-husband, Marlon Brando, and sneered. "You slob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Musical Pairs | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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