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...sometimes, thin and overdrawn, the poor child would come home from work in the whee hours of the morning with a wicked case of "the mean reds." For this condition, a sort of moral hangover, there was only one cure. She would take a cab to Tiffany's jewelry store and lay her head against the elegant little show windows. That ice felt so good...
...materialized in a $400,000 Victorian house on Chicago's North State Street, complete from the half-acre bed to the woo grotto. No wonder its owner says "Life is beautiful." He is Hugh Marston Hefner, 34, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine, a sort of editorial whee, whose candy castle-aswarm with Playboy's celebrated center-spread Playmates-symbolizes the expansion of his young empire into show business. Scarcely a year in operation, Hefner's members-only Playboy key club has become the largest employer of entertainment talent in Chicago and is the prototype of more...
...Review, Dorothy ("Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses") Parker, wit, versifier and short-story writer, spoke frankly about many things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly dated." Of the difference between...
LORD & TAYLOR moved in on staid Philadelphia this week with all the whistle and whee of a Hollywood premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...
...admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...