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...Strings & Morality. Author de Beauvoir gathered her evidence at swank hotels and dreary slums, saw and did whatever she could. In a New Orleans nightclub she saw a beautiful brunette do a striptease, and when the girl was down to her G-string, "the atmosphere was so charged with morality that one might have been in church." She also smoked marijuana in a New York hotel apartment with a group of initiates. One dark woman had an abandoned look and tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: America with Preconceptions | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...made in retail prices still buffaloes me; if the farmer gave the packer the cattle and hauled them in free, how much would the price of retail meat lower? Admittedly the prime and choice steaks will be high- they always have been-but let the Cadillac owners and swank restaurants have them. Your reporter might be surprised to see the towns and stores that don't carry as good a quality as the "good," but at a "good" price ; and much of that hamburger and lower-priced meat isn't from the 14? steer, either; it comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Body in a Sack. Only half a block away from swank Delamere Avenue, police caught one Mau Mau gang initiating new members (by forcing them to drink blood, and eat a sheep's entrails). Last week Banasio Kahangara, son of the Paramount Chief of Lari who was murdered this spring (TIME, April 6), was found in a sack on Main Street, strangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slaughter in Kenya | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...parade continued. Past the swank Hotel Taft, past a slumbering business district, and back to the Harkness Common where the bandsmen stopped, and, as if to offer some consolation, blared out the Yale medley. A tuba player had trouble keeping the beat; he was laughing too hard. Finally, the band about-faced and sprinted back to the busses. The musicians all boarded, but the busses didn't move. Someone pointed out a window...

Author: By Jack Rosenthai., | Title: The Red Coats Are Coming | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Prophet Jones, Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, who has established a lien on divinity himself. Forth from Father Divine's headquarters in Philadelphia went a cordial invitation: Would the Prophet attend the consecration of the Father's new 73-acre heaven in swank suburban Montgomery County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cosmic Lubritorium | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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