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...self-help: "Seven Ways to Improve Your Sex Technique," and "You, Too, Can Drink Anyone Under the Table." Others offer household hints, such as "How to Cook a Man," and "How to Prospect for Uranium." Educational articles on "Science Conquers Sex" and "The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," vie with sports features like "French Girls on a Six-Day Grind" (women cyclists...

Author: By Darryl Estherbrook, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

...those rather too French concoctions that act as though Gallic were derived from gal, The Happy Time fetches its laughs from souvenir garters, stolen nighties, La Vie Parisienne, grandpa's amorous exertions that require medical aid, grandson's amorous speculations that require parental talks. Lest any of this seem unduly coarse, the characters are made wacky or lovable as well as lecherous, and the story is sprayed with period allusions and pidgin French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Vie Frank, a fellow Olympian from Yale, placed second in the shot with a toss f 50 ft., 6 and three quarter in., edging out the Crimson's Jeff Tootell who threw 48 ft., 8 and three-quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mile Relayers Place Second at BAA | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Would-be and has-been players will vie with Broadway regulars for a place in the summer sun. But, being more commercial than quaint, many a summer playhouse will depend more than ever on big names to draw vacationing theatergoers. Some stars will tour singly, others with supporting players or a whole "package" show-the growing bugaboo of resident troupes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Citronella Circuit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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