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...folks," he usually begins, "we've got a couple of special offers for you this evening that we know you don't want to miss. I have in my hand here a copy of the latest issue of 'Sex Thrills' magazine, filled with the spiciest photos an stories you've ever seen. Modesty forbids my reading you a selection from the true story I Was a Bar Maid in Phoenix City, Alabama,' but for just fifty cents, one half a dollar, you can read not only this revealing tale of a young girl's downfall, but a large number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

...week's spiciest draft news came from the House Committee on Naval Affairs, which soundly and publicly birched the Navy Department for: 1) deferring too many of its civilian employes; 2) maintaining a landlubber corps of young, healthy sailors in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Navy Spanking | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

That Hamilton Woman (United Artists). One of the spiciest scandals in British history occurred during the Napoleonic Wars: the romance of the great one-eyed, one-armed sea dog, Horatio, Lord Nelson (Laurence Olivier), and the frivolous Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1941 | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving the classics to white-mustached Frederick Stock, they concentrated on the moderns that Stock was too busy to play. Some of them were not worth playing. But all of them were news. Soon the Illinois Symphony was rated as Chicago's spiciest highbrow musical institution, and Chicago's wide-awake concertgoers were afraid to stay away for fear of missing something good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: WPA Maestro | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...waiting for for six months turned out to be not a juicy scandal but a feeble anticlimax. Garbled and often wholly unintelligible, the transcript gave Coloradans an interesting insight into the informality with which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson had entertained two young ladies in his apartment, one of whom felt too tired from a previous party to drink anything stronger than ginger ale. As for official misconduct on the part of the Governor or bribery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Sly Vigilantes | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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