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Thirty-two different books, most of them featuring women in various stages of undress and men in various stages of emotion were reported as "selling quite well" by stand proprietors. Already sold out were "The American Collegiate Dictionary" and "Sex Habits of the American Female...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Novel Display of Pocket Books Thrills Funsters in Dining Hall | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today's "Bikini" style of undress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PICTURES ON THE FLOOR | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flesh Is Weak | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Come-as-you-are parties are also rite. They are planned in advance by one small group who, at the appointed time, rest out their companions and drag them, in various states of undress, down to the drawing room, where cat sessions ensue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highway Haunts, Lakeside Luxuries Supply Entertainment for Travellers | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...They Beat Me." For the Fitzgeralds, as for many of their contemporaries, the big toot was on-what Scott called "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Binge | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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