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Thread #103749   Message #2513407
Posted By: JohnInKansas
12-Dec-08 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: News of Note (was 'I Read it . . .')
Subject: RE: BS: News of Note (was 'I Read it . . .')
Probably not a person appropriate for mention in the main threads, but possible still remembered some some:

An Obituary -

Pinup model Bettie Page dies in L.A. at 85

updated 10:02 p.m. CT, Thurs., Dec. 11, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
Page suffered a heart attack last week in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, her agent Mark Roesler said. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.
"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.
Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, ...

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I suspect that some who will not know her name still will recognize her from the photos (non risque) at the link.

I remember her well from a deck of scandalous playing cards hidden in a neighbor's garage rafters when I was about 9 - well before the 60s. (All the neighborhood boys knew where the cards were, of course.) It was several decades before I knew her name.

John