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Notwithstanding the celebrated advice of Lorelei Lee ("A kiss on the hand may be quite Continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend"), most European women welcome the new wave of hand kissing, and to their men it has always seemed a more intriguing approach to a woman than the aseptic Anglo-Saxon handshake. As a Viennese satirist wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Wayward Buss | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...form of a gorgeous 17-year-old bohemian named Charlotte, the daughter of Georgie's childhood love. Charlotte is a dreadful shock to everyone at Wellington College: they wear tweeds and say "homosexual''; she wears leotards and says "faggot." The scene in which this Lorelei reawakens the red-eared adolescent in Georgie is worth some study. They are alone; she reclines on black satin. She murmurs: "I was just wondering what would happen if in addition to dinner and the ballet tonight, we gave ourselves some of the ultimate pleasures? If we are at all enlightened, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel Mortarboard | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...role of public figure (as a glamorous grandmother and crony of the late Ernest Hemingway), Dietrich tries to cash in on both images in Marlene Dietrich's ABC. As a result, the book is a kind of uneasy cross between Poor Richard's Almanack and a Lorelei's Advice to the Lovelorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Goddam | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Last week Burns announced that he would debut next month at the Seattle World's Fair with a new double act. His partner: Comedienne Carol Charming, 41 ,the overgrown (5 ft. 9 in.) pixy who was diamond-digging Lorelei Lee in Broadway's long-running Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Jules and Jim see a sculpture, the head of a woman smiling. Sometimes her smile is the omniscient smile of Sophia, sometimes it is the saurian grin of a Lorelei. They fall in love with the smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Love with a Smile | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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