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With a chaperone in tow, Bebe (Miss America) Shopp, 18, did a bit of touring in Europe. (Breathed a goggling French customs officer: "Quelle femme!") In London, Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...matching his stage performance in "Born Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion for hair tonic and finds that he can't smooth his hair with a wooden hair brush...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Embarrassing questions kept following them. In December Rita's divorce from Orson became final; two weeks later, in New York, she hustled aboard the Britannic with her daughter Rebecca, 4, firmly in tow. Aly Khan was also aboard. Mother & daughter spent Christmas at Aly's County Kildare estate near Dublin. From Ireland, Rita and Rebecca went via London to Switzerland, where they visited with Aly and his two sons, Karim Aga, 12, and Amyon Mohammed, 11. After two weeks of skiing, the party pulled up again on the Riviera. There the engagement was announced, two months before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Oui, Out | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...front window of a 1940 Buick belonging to Ralph M. Hymans '49, was broken Wednesday by garage attendants who proceeded to tow the vehicle from its parking place on Holyoke place according to police instructions. Hymans last night announced that he will sue for damages in small claims court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Windows Broken, Car Towed, Student Sues | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

Helped by a fresh wind and a strong ground swell, the Magdalena slowly worked herself off her perch. Next morning, tugs took her in tow. As the crippled ship wallowed into the harbor, Rio stopped work. From the seawalls, from the windows of downtown office skyscrapers, all along the city's 20 miles of beaches, cariocas gaped. None anticipated the climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Sailor's Nightmare | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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