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Dumpling, 58-year-old Elsa Maxwell, professional party-thrower and No. 1 U.S. hedonist, will "do anything for a laugh-with me or at me." (Once, hard-pressed for a laugh, Elsa threw a banana peel on the stairs, laughed and laughed as she bounced black & blue to the bottom.) But one thing she drew the line at was writing a gossip column. So last week she turned columnist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: EIGHTH WONDER SYNDICATED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Harvard has been hit much more severely as number one javelin thrower Tom Lacey is still recovering from a pulled arm and Larry Corbett, Dave Ives, and Bob Partlow have all been on the sick list in the past week. Counter-balancing these debits, hammer tossers Bob Chase and Tom White and shot putter John Shattuck have exhibited unbelievable improvement of late...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Experienced Yale Menaces Trackmen's Clean Record | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

...companionate marriage, however, is not completely dead. From Thomas J. Dorgan, South Boston politician who two years ago attacked the appointment of Granville Hicks and last year was the leader in bringing action against Russell, came a vitriolic statement deploring the appointment of "America's number 1 filth thrower to America's number 1 University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL WILL ARRIVE HERE EARLY TODAY | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...trucks to the jazzed-up Habanera while her mother pounds a little red piano. Captain Billy revised a scene in which Carmen consorts with smugglers in a cafe, made the chief smuggler a Greek restaurant proprietor, played by himself. Bullfighter Escamillo announces that he is "the greatest bull-thrower in all Spain," while Carmen begs him to "come to the Zoo opera to see my understudy." Climax is the bullfight scene (usually off-stage noises), in which the bull, accompanied by the announcement: "Here comes Ferdinand," appears munching a carnation. Instead of getting killed, the bull performs a soft-shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Carmens | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Throughout the Provinces tease acts drew big crowds. Theatre marquees were bright with electric signs such as "STRIP PLEASE," "STRIP AHOY," "STRIP STRIP HOORAY." One of the most popular acts featured a knife-thrower who stood his fully dressed partner up against a panel and then threw knives and toma hawks which literally peeled her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strip Strip Hooray | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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