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...government was not willing to offend either womankind or Ethnos, one of its biggest supporters, so the Miss Greece finals went on last week as scheduled. Shiny lines of Buicks and Cadillacs brought 700 VIPs (including ex-Premiers Sophocles Venizelos, Constantine Tsaldaris and a dozen Cabinet or ex-Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Climax of Sin | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...wife of the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Mrs. Mark (Willie Snow) Ethridge is a member of a rather small subdivision of womankind. Last week, at a meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Mrs. Ethridge good-naturedly explained just what was so special about being a newspaper publisher's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Publisher's Wife | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Your Jan. 28 article about the torera from Texas is a disgrace to womankind. Bullfighting for men is barbaric and horrible, but for women to invade this cruel sport is sickening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Bobbed Hair & Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Girl for the Gazette | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

That anguished cry of womankind has echoed down the ages of this man's world, and the wise guys of every age have found that it pays to sympathize. Author Toombs has sympathized so shrewdly in Raising a Riot that he is likely to be paid plenty in royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laughing Gas | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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