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Pleasures v. Duty. Particularly, Dwight Eisenhower at last seemed to be relishing the role of political leader. His stag dinner was the third within a month attended largely by G.O.P. politicians. At each one he has clearly indicated that he intends to assume firm leadership of the Republican Party, but he has skillfully refused to commit himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Burdens & Bosh | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Put Them All Together | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...modern-day cootch dancer who made a big hit in Broadway's Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements ... are not particularly different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Despite numerous Harvard and Radcliffe protests against the stag plan, the decision of this vote is final. The Dance will be held in Agassiz on Dec. 4, and Each girl may invite two extra boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Vote to Invite Extra Stags to Holiday Formal | 11/5/1954 | See Source »

Because seven out of ten Radcliffe dormitories voted against the plan to have a stag line at the Christmas Formal, there will be an all-college vote on Monday to decide definitely on the proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Dorm Poll Opposes Stag Plan | 10/29/1954 | See Source »

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