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...Tan. In Cajon Pass, Calif., the Oakdale Ranch nudist camp's monthly Nudesletter reported that "nudist camps were started by a group of sunbathers who, in their search for a perfect tan, were determined to leave no stern untoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Somewhat Illegal. Occasional criticism of her politics (her husband, Singer Yves Montand, was an unabashed fellow traveler, and she too has displayed a few leftish twinges) troubles her not at all. "My mother," says she, "was the kind to tan hides when people haven't given up a seat in the metro or taken back a racist remark. I'm a little bit like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Subtle Poison | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...could hardly wait to start hunting. He would be out with a shotgun, he told reporters, just "as soon as they feed me." Right after lunch in Pete Jones's three-story white colonial mansion. Ike turned out in a rust-colored suède jacket over a tan cashmere shirt. In 3½ hours the President's party flushed 26 coveys of quail, and Ike himself, using a 20-gauge automatic shotgun, brought down eight birds. Next day he returned to the hunt, bagged his legal limit of twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Interlude | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Kennedy. Wearing a handsome grin and a deep tan (he was just back from a two-week rest in Jamaica), Jack Kennedy packed the stately caucus room of the old Senate Office Building as a front runner should. Millionaire Jack (see box) made no mention of money, called himself a "liberal Democrat," spun out a list of global questions that would require "crucial decisions" in the years ahead (arms race, emergent nations, U.S. science and education, farm policy, moral purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS,CALIFORNIA: D-Day for Two | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

With Cheek of Tan. In Lansing, Kans., Prisoner Floyd E. Ireland won the poetry contest at Kansas State Prison, later was sent to solitary when his poem turned out to be the work of John Greenleaf Whittier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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