Remember Sophia Loren in the film The Millionairess? How she looked in her black lingerie and wide brimmed hat? Well, SUSAN DOUGLAS may be in white instead of black, but would you say we were uncommonly biased if we said Susan looks just as good? After all, as one pink elephant said to another pink elephant, "Hello, good-looking."
Span No 128 - July 1964
Span No 181 - September 1969
Art who? Art Kimble, affectionately known to his intimates as Goof. A great friend of ours, and we'd do anything for him except lend him a fiver. He's got enough of his own. But we're off course, Goof has nothing to do with this. We should have said cinematic art. Lovely HELGA SOMMERFELD German star, is rehearsing a scene where she's strapped to the revolving target while some incomprehensible cad throws knives all round her. We wouldn't do that for any art, there are some incomprehensible cads who can't throw accurately at a static target, let alone a moving one.
Beautiful Britons No 106 - August 1964
Having worn tights for several years, beauty queen MARILYN WARD didn't quite know how to cope with all the straps and clips of a suspender belt, and the whole thing seemed to be all loose ends.
Well, everyone had been saying that nylons were coming back, and Marilyn didn't want to be left out, like. And she didn't want to be beaten. She got the belt all fixed up in the end and when it all came undone again at the first deep breath, she took she wasn't half ratty.
Still, it was all a bit of a giggle, really.
Spick & Span Extra No 55 - Summer 1975
Out they went into the sun again, those two Hampshire housewives, MARIE GRAHAM and NICOLA TAYLOR. Well, they're all for giggles, and where there's sun there's fun.
They found a three-wheeled scooter, and that was just the job for a one-legged scoot round the farm if only they hadn't both tried to use it at the same time.
"What are you following us for?" asked Marie.
"Just for the fun of it, " said the photographer.
"Well, do excuse my stocking-tops, won't you?" said Marie.
"It's too warm for maxis, you see," said Marie.
"It's quite all right with me, "said the photographer.
Oh, good show," said Nicola.
She didn't know what she was saying.
Beautiful Britons No 192 - November 1971
Should employers have any say in what a secretary should, or should not, wear ?
Definitely not, says delicious little Kim Dale firmly. Apparently, her boss objected to her wearing these stockings to the office.
They gave him a headache!
However, being a kindly man, he invited her back to his flat so that he could study the stockings. It might, he said, help him to get used to them.
All that's happened, murmurs Kim, is that he's more pop-eyed than ever! What about you?
QT No 86 - 1963
It was just one more large envelope among a multitude of other envelopes in the mail but imagine our undiluted joy when out of it fell a photograph of our bonny Scot, RUTH CAVENDISH.
Ruth is simply delicious.
Pin-ups from North of the Border all have that well-known bonny look, none more so than Miss Cavendish.
White teeth, laughing eyes and curves.
You don't find them like that every day in the mail. We'd have told our postman about her but he's a non-starter in any conversation that doesn't revolve around his tender feet.
Beautiful Britons No 174 - May 1970
Sailors are men who go round the world in ships and find out the phone numbers of the curviest girls in every port. As soon as they dock, they get on the nearest blower.
"Hello, is that you, Rosie? This is Bert."
"Oh, how thrilling. Come right round and ring three times. That'll just give me time to load my shotgun."
Well, you know what sailors are. Sometimes it makes the girls real mad.
Of course, not all sailors are like Bert.
LAURETTE ATKIN is a sailor. She sails in Poole Harbour all wrapped up in mustard-coloured oilskins when it's rough. She's got a 12-foot dinghy and she can sail rings round the marker buoys when the tiller gets stuck.
She wasn't out in her dinghy when we took these photographs of her. She was just outside Bournemouth, and she was having a landlubber's holiday or something. Later we went to crew for her. We fell overboard. It was a shockingly wet way to go.
Span No 182 - October 1969
IT'S not Anna's face that's been her fortune-it's her slim, boyish figure. For a long while now, she's been modelling schoolgirl's wear. "I must," she smiles, "be the only 22 year-old schoolgirl in the modelling business". But now she's getting tired of being seen only in gym smocks and navy bloomers. She's thrown aside the hockey stick and emerged as a woman QT style. Our view? Stay behind after class, Anna!
QT No 91 - 1964
Training to be a teacher is JULIE MITCHELL.
Julie is a Midlands girl and as well as being ever so brainy she's also ever so dishy. Her pupils are going to welcome her with open arms, especially the boys.
Julie's subjects are English and Maths. And she's a lovely netballer, as well as a corking tennis player. Some school's going to get quite an acquisition.
Anyone wanting to enrol?
Spick & Span Extra No 55 - Summer 1975
The epitome of feminine perfection today must be that which is brought about by a girl who is a loving housewife, an efficient secretary and absolutely smashing.
Absolutely smashing is CAROLINE SPENCER.
Housewife and secretary, Caroline can even make male hippies quiver at the knees. Male hippies don't normally react to anything or anybody unless it or they look like something that just got pushed over a cliff. We’re not anti-hippy. Don't think that. It's just that when they grow up, they won't have any tender memories, only ones like "When I was young, I lived in bus shelters and got lousy.”
Caroline is our bet for the housewife we'd most like to make a souffle with.
Many a Mrs. like Caroline makes life lovely in the kitchen.
Spick & Span Extra No 35 - Summer 1970
Up in this part of the Scottish Highlands there's a farm that wanders over countless acres, and if you're anywhere near watch out for Ferdinand.
RUTH CAVENDISH in the ankle boots and ANNE SCOTT in the high boots were near enough on this occasion to feel just a mite nervous. So much so that they hitched up their skirts to be all ready to vamoose if Ferdinand did appear.
And sure, enough a pair of inimical horns hove into view eventually and our two lovelies did not stand upon their going but went.
'"Hold on,' panted Ruth after a mile or so, "that's not Ferdinand, that's
Bessie."
"Oh, how sweet," said Anne.
Bessie, of course, is Ferdinand's lovable mate.
Span No 200 - April 1971
