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...submerged boat 350 yards offshore, an Austrian freelance photographer, Inge Morath, spotted them through her telephoto lens and went to the rescue. A handsome brunette and champion swimmer, Inge jettisoned her cameras and chopped out to the two exhausted men. There she resourcefully unhooked her bra, flung one strap to each man, towed them behind her as she breast-stroked safely ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Epic in Durango | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Fumetti magazines rarely pursue such Biblical story lines, but from the strap to the toe of Italy's boot they are all the rage. Each week some 4,000,000 Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Puffs of Smoke | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Rome the bongo drums throbbed unnecessarily. Tuxedos dropped to the floor in homage. Blue-blooded Borgheses and warm-blooded entertainers stamped their feet, but hardly to get circulation going. Cinemelon Anita Ekberg had just slumped with exhaustion after dropping a shoulder strap in a loamy cha-cha-cha, and now a Turkish bellydancer was grinding away at Anita's challenge: "Let's see you do better." She did. With fundamental gesture-and no clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Bring me that helmet there," directed another polo princeling, "and tighten the strap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Pour Tout | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

Moving too quickly, Vag tried to adjust it, but his thick fingers were clumsy, and the strap broke in his hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Pour Tout | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

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