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...gossipists-which twin would get the toniest bachelor on Telegraph Hill?-came the answer last week, when Land Developer John Fell Stevenson, 25, youngest son of the U.S.'s U.N. ambassador, reached the moment of troth with Occasional Interior Decorator Natalie Owings, 22, the less bohemian of the sloe-eyed twin daughters of Architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...South Viet Nam, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is much more than Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law and a Christian first lady in a Buddhist land. She is also a pert, sloe-eyed and strong-willed feminist who, as a member of the National Assembly, pushed through a "chastity law" that reins in freewheeling husbands and gives wives more freedom to plan their own lives. To outspoken and powerful Madame Ngo, the cheating husbands of the journalistic world are the foreign correspondents, who are not subject to the Directorate General of Information "guidance" that all South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Job for Joe? | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Crassus, actually only a competitor for the consulship while Spartacus was on the loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed to the soul." For years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...whose verbal policy is not massive retaliation but massive assault, Alexander King is startlingly wispy in physique and disarmingly gentle in manner. His droopy white mustache straggles for existence on a face that frequently crinkles with shrewd, sloe-eyed smiles. King (original name: Koenig) came to the U.S. just before World War I with his father, a research chemist, and a lovably scatterbrained mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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