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After weeks of tabloid ballyhoo, curious patrons, including her Texas playboy husband Sheppard King, packed into a Miami Beach nightclub for the American premiere of Samia Gamal's torso-twisting harem dance. In bare feet, a gossamer pink skirt slit down the middle, gold tassels glittering round her bare midriff, Samia slithered through four minutes of her "real oriental art." Then she hurried to her dressing room for a Band-Aid for her big toe, which she had cut on the glass floor. Critical consensus: domestic burlesque is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hollywood's Crier | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

With the Government's blessing, New York's tabloid News pulled the handle this week on what it called "the biggest jackpot in history." The News began printing the names of thousands of New Yorkers to whom the Government owes nearly $5,000,000 in old income-tax refunds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Addresses Unknown | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...husband, Ted Thackrey, onetime Post editor and now editor and publisher of the Redlined New York Compass, tried last week to get into the Post's act. The Compass picked up an attack on Winchell, recently run in a Manhattan monthly tabloid called Exposé, and billed it as "The Original Expose" on Winchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Biggest Success Story | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Inland Empire's Voice | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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