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...eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...
...skintight budgets and rigid shooting schedules, Cecil B. DeMille is one of the few producers who can still pursue Hollywood's ancient slogan: "The more you spend, the more you make." For the climax of Samson and Delilah (TIME, Dec. 26, 1949), he smashed his enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel...
Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
...onstage, the bravos became boos. When Brook retreated smiling, Soprano Welitch came back for more cheers. She had never had to work so hard for them. In addition to other troubles, she had lost her seventh veil while trying to hook it, momentarily revealing an ample midsection and skintight, flesh-colored panties. Said she: "Dali doesn't know the opera. It should be all light, not in darkness like the North Pole. I could show no expression as I should, and I have never had to do such acrobatics before...
...eyes of Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt, the skintight, low-cut gowns worn at Cuban church weddings are a scandal. "The fashion of impudent undressing," he thundered last week, "has become more prevalent and more indecent among the women . . . not only on the beaches, at dances, and in other profane diversions, but even in such a sacred ceremony as the sacrament of marriage...