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...Certain Smile is another tale of extramarital fun and games, this time between a teen-ager named Dominique, who leaves her schoolboy beau, and his suave, older, married uncle. Smile in its first month had four printings of a whopping 250,000 copies, already seems assured of outstripping even the success of Tristesse. Wags are suggesting that the certain smile shines from the face of Rene Julliard, her publisher. It will be brought out in the U.S. in August by Dutton...
Dwarfed by the hulking form of the American Export liner Constitution, a crowd of hundreds thronged Pier 84 in Manhattan one foggy day last week. Man, woman and teen-ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business...
Retired in Manhattan, millionaire ex-Cinemactress Greta Garbo, 51, got word that she has inherited $772 from an uncle, a Swedish farmer who doted upon her when she was a teen-ager embarking on a career as a barber's helper in Stockholm...
...capitals of middle Europe and went to visit Paderewski, who relaxed the prodigy's initial tenseness by feeding him champagne. The treatment worked so well that a visiting music critic from Boston arranged for his first tour in the U.S. On the boat going over, the charming teen-ager-of-the-world lost all his cash learning poker, but he made a big hit with the fashionable New Yorkers at the card table, soon learned his way around the big houses on Fifth Avenue...
Behind the Plate. As a string-straight teen-ager refugee from a shoe factory, Connie learned his trade in a day when pitchers lobbed the ball underhand and catchers grabbed it on the first bounce some 15 ft. back of the plate. It was all too soft for Connie. His only equipment a fingerless kid glove, Connie walked out to the mound one day and told his pitcher to fire the ball overhand. The unexpected stunt almost started a riot among the fans, but the style stuck...