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...Vegas body, she looks the part - and she has lived some of it. The oldest child of a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools in Ceylon, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...thousands of Americans who visit the seedy Mexican border town of Tijuana each year, many aim not to live it up, but simply to live. For more than a decade, one of Tijuana's busiest spas has been a clinic operated by Dr. Ernesto Contreras Rodriguez, 60, who, in the eyes of his patients, offers that most elusive of medical miracles: a cancer cure. The heart of his treatment, a drug called Laetrile, is banned in the U.S. and Canada as a phony remedy; but it is perfectly legal in Mexico, where Contreras has administered it to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laetrile Crackdown | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...also had all the prescribed early breaks. He had been "discovered" on the Tonight Show four times, sung with Don Rickles in Reno and Vegas, played the Copa, Jimmy's and the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, signed a $7,500 contract with Epic Records and toured the top spas on the Borscht Belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The $390,000 Man | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...bareness is a big reason why the look has caught on. Women are more body conscious than ever-and anxious to show off their well-toned torsos. As Garfinckel's Johnson puts it, "Women are playing tennis, going to spas and generally taking better care of their bodies-and are proud of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Look, No Straps | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Like Poe, Cornell was obsessed with a dream Europe. Cornell's Europe, however, ended with World War I and perpetuated itself in hotel letterheads from French spas, fragments of Baedeker maps and reverent evocations of ballerinas, from Marie Taglioni to Loie Fuller. It lasted from the 15th century to la Belle Epoque; his boxes preserve it like microscope slides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Symbolist Poet | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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