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...costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations: a $15,000 sable-lined raincoat, a $65,000 sable greatcoat, and a $5,000 Fredrica-designed strapless mink sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Comeback | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside a gas station in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Gold of Dongo | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Rocko double-parked his red Ferrari outside Briggs Hall the next afternoon. Tubeless, who had been waiting, ran out and embraced him, a dream in her black knit sheath and white suede greatcoat. Her wavy blond hair tangled silkily with his fingers as she crushed against him. Her matchless face was burning with anticipation...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: The Big Game: Some Faces In the Crowd | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

Serge was a precocious boy whose doting mother pampered him and made him wear sailor suits until he was 13. After the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, father Rubinstein, according to Serge, lined his greatcoat with rubles and jewels, and raced off across the frozen Gulf of Finland in a troika. The family followed him four months later, and ten-year-old Serge arrived in Stockholm with money pinned all over his undershirt, and a big sapphire hung around his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Scoundrel | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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