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...this scrabble of stories, Scenarist Irving Wallace has spelled his tale. Pianist Anthony Warrin, "a warm, perceptive and amusing . . . bachelor in his early 305" (Liberace himself, according to his pressagent, is 35), is at the height of his fame. His sequin-trimmed dinner jacket is faithfully buffed and his glass-topped piano Windexed by a pretty young secretary (Joanne Dru). She loves the man, but he would rather tickle the ivories. In San Francisco, though, the pianist has an experience (Dorothy Malone) that lifts his eyes from the scales. He hurries the young lady off to a museum, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Business As Usual. In Columbus, Ohio, having summoned the law to arrest a Peeping Tom, Stripteaser Geraldine ("Sequin") Garner proudly presented police with an autographed nude picture of herself, inscribed: "What the Peeping Tom was peeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...worn in comfort, and 2) only comfort can create sense-making style. Her clothes are functional, simple and clean of line. She likes "buttons that button and bows that tie." She is, says Dallas Retailer Stanley Marcus, "the master of the line, never the slave of the sequin. She is one of the few creative designers this country has ever produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: The American Look | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...room, he sat quietly, facing the microphone. But energetic Anna Rosenberg, seated beside him, making her first appearance on Capitol Hill as Assistant Secretary of Defense, was never still. She toyed constantly with her glasses, fluttered papers, jangled her heavy charm bracelets, restlessly tucked her hair up under her sequin-studded pink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Universal Service? | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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