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...actors in and out of employment were remembering Irene, whose scarred and overscarred acting career, after more than 30 futile years, had finally burst into flame in a foreign city. Giving a memorable performance in a new London play called Tomorrow-With Pictures, she is identified as a "queen bitch," an American woman who wants to conquer a British newspaper empire. Much of the battle is won on the playing sheets of Kensington. But in the end, she loses the spoils and has nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Perils of Irene | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...Laura, who has had eight children by seven men. "Man, she like Shakespeare when it come to using words," says a man who is inexplicably called Hat. Tenderly, Laura gives her brood the rough side of her tongue: "Alwyn, you broadmouth brute, come here," and "Lorna, you black bowleg bitch, why you can't look what you doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

...ever been shown at the Academy. One was Joan Floyd of Bristol, who had a painting hung in 1928 when she was 14, but gave up her career for marriage. The other was Master (later Sir) Edwin Landseer, whose Portrait of a Mule and Portrait of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy created a sensation in 1915 when Landseer was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Academician, j.g. | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

With it all, Caryl Chessman was-and is-arrogant, self-centered and pathologically egotistical. At San Quentin, he greeted one of his lawyers-who arrived an hour late for an appointment after winning another legal delay-with a snarling "Where have you been, you son of a bitch?" Said a former Los Angeles plainclothesman who got to know him well: "His ego is so apparent that it almost reaches out and grabs you by the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: The Chessman Affair | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...Author Thayer also believes that the style of Russian diplomacy has not fundamentally changed since the 16th century, when a local Cossack leader addressed the Turkish Sultan Mahomet III in a letter whose milder passages read: "We will lick you on land and sea, you hostile son-of-a-bitch . . . You Alexandrian goatherd, you Babylonian cook, you Macedonian wagonmaker, Jerusalem's traitor, Kamchatka cat, Podolian villain, swindler of the world, and evildoer of the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Better Than Gypsies | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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