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...mother of a two-year-old boy, works about 25 hours a week at modeling for top cosmetic houses. She has a problem that most women who visit beauty salons would be delighted to share: she is petite (98 Ibs.). Says Jean Thorn: "I hate it. I take vitamin pills and everything to fatten up a bit." She spends about 20 minutes a day making up ("though I can draw it out to a process of ridiculous length when I have time"), does not stick to any set makeup rules but likes to experiment. For TIME Researcher Jean Franklin, gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...week concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores, went home only when Pianist Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Piclc-Me-Up. In Hartford, Conn., Clyde Wise was taken to a hospital after downing a Sunday-morning mixed drink containing a can of beer, two bottles of Mercurochrome, a bottle of iodine, 50 aspirins. Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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