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...Ziggy felt he must be surer than ever of success. Accordingly he aimed pointblank at the middle-aged male who is the basic support of all girl shows, by having shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry Richman, to whom few tired businessmen's wives are indifferent. Richman's duty was to pace the evening and loosen up laugh muscles, stimulate the tune appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Old Follies | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mystery Plunge | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roosevelt on Wilhelm | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...sunset over the hills of Valley Forge this afternoon was by far more beautiful than the combined charms of. "Zig's" gallery or perhaps even Hank himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: The quality of "modesty" in your correspondent Alphonse J. Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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