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...that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most important of all, for almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week, he is busy catering to an oddball group of well-heeled vagrants -perverted dress designers, roundheeled models, superannuated opera stars, blue-nosed diplomats, alcoholic newlyweds and assorted upper-class deadbeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...stars do well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Tonight at 8:30 | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Yale instituted its method of using machines to decide assignment to upper-class "colleges" because 80 per cent of the Freshmen were applying to the two "popular" colleges, leaving the remaining eight with virtually no applications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Dislike Yale's Plan For House Selections | 4/30/1958 | See Source »

...outside the pen, finger on the button. Whenever the No. 1 hen tried to eat or peck, it got an electric shock. It also got a shock when the low-ranking hen of the pair plucked up courage to peck it. After a short course of this treatment, the upper-class hens began to have serious doubts about their place in society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pecks in Reverse | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

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