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...thirstiest friends was Evgeny Ivanov. Though he was a bit of a prig, Ivanov was a devoted reader of the steamy James Bond novels, found them "amusing but ridiculous." He professed to dislike loose women, did not like Christine even to use cosmetics. But one hot July night, recalls Christine, Ivanov finally "came to forsake all his principles and his pride. Suddenly he was kissing me, rolling his dark curls into my neck ..." Afterward, Ivanov was "sad, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Goddess of the Gravel Pits | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...Lost Dutchman." Feature writers, artists and slumming socialites flock in; they make even more of Dan, a rare, pure specimen of pre-Fire, South-of-Market Irishman, than of his Rembrandt. But local bluenoses denounce Dan and all his works and ways. After a sensational hearing in which his thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds up in a saloonkeeper's heaven on Nob Hill. Like Dan's old tavern, the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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