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...whom rarely see the morning light. Even such papers as the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, which righteously proclaimed on its editorial page that it was proper to "seal off this filthy business from the public view," told its public on Page One the same day: "Call Girl Pat Ward wept at her past today and choked over the names of café society big shots to whom she sold her love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Behind the Closed Doors | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Noble wept. "My God," he said in a dazed voice. "My conscience is clear." He was repeating, "Thankful ... so thankful," as he walked outside and vanished in the hurrying and irascible throng on the sidewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Love Story | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Even in Manhattan, where call girls are $1,200 for the dozen, bright-blonde, 21-year-old Diane Harris was a sensation. For one thing, she was noisy. She wept with rage and frustration when the cops arrested her (just in time to make the Sunday tabloids) at an East Side hotel. She kept it up at the D.A.'s office. She bawled steadily and stridently for a full half-hour as she was arraigned as a material witness in the case against Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke, who is charged with being a procurer for well-heeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Golden Girl | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Mozambique Channel, with Dr. Smith fretting in the cabin. It made a landing on the small French island of Dzaoudzi, more than 1,500 miles away. There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship. He knelt on the deck and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: African Ancestor | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...dealt with Strollo after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo for civic good-the way "Roosevelt went to see Stalin," he said. He had been ashamed to admit it, "because all my life I have been clean." Chauffeur Jordan had a different story: the mayor had wept on his shoulder, and moaned: "They've got me dead to rights -they must have had a bug [microphone] in the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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