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...Sullivan doll and it just stands there. Wind up the David Merrick doll and it auctions off its mother. No point trying to wind up the Jayne Mansfield doll-it's busted. Wind up the Brigitte Bardot doll, on the other hand, and it drops the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Paper Dolls | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...roadside stop for a quick snack, customers may be spared the soggy sponge with which the waitress often swabs down the counter. The Linen Supply Association of America now offers a gadget that, in effect, provides fresh linen tablecloths for each counter diner. Operating on the old roller-towel principle, the fresh section of mat is pulled into place after each meal by the waitress. Price: on the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: New Products | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Taking voice lessons, she shed her Neapolitan dialect for a clearer Italian. She posed for more pictures-semi-covered with a bath towel, twirling an eel like a two-foot hot dog, being lassoed by Indians, having her brassière adjusted by a male volunteer, going to Mass, holding her skirt so high that the Italian police confiscated the entire edition of the magazine that ran the picture on its cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Much Woman | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...caught in the act; they can be jailed if discovered in suspicious circumstances. Last summer John Rudd, 34, a prominent Johannesburg businessman, was arrested in his home with Dottie Tiyo, a dark-skinned 21-year-old professional dancer; when the police came in, Rudd wore only a towel, and the girl had his bathrobe on. Each drew six months in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Sex & Color | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...counsel table or the jury-box railing. Once, demonstrating a murder scene, he lay flat on the courtroom floor and continued his oration from that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black lace panties as a trophy of the victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Ambivalence Chaser | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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