Word: agers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skill at timing; a gentle but conspicuous talent. ¶ Julie London, "discovered" by Agent Sue Carol running a Hollywood store elevator (which studio publicists claim had also been previously operated by Susan Peters and Jane Russell). Her chief asset : she vigorously communicates just about all the oomph a teen-ager decently could...
...Herlihy) is the Scotch-Irish daughter of a small businessman in Glasgow. Until last week her career has been much like that of most other young actresses. As a little girl she always hogged the starring roles in re-enactments of movies; as a teen-ager she met stern opposition from her parents when she wanted to play-act for keeps. Her tribulations as a typist were anesthetized by amateur theatricals; as soon as she saved a little money she fled to London for "the most terrifying six months of my life"-25 shillings a week and job-hunting through...
Ginger Rogers and five other clotheshorses were touted by Fashion Designer Ray Driscoll as his favorites for the backhanded title: Hollywood's Worst-Dressed Women. Proclaimed Driscoll: Ginger "doesn't dress." Betty Hutton "wears too much of everything." Joan Leslie "tries to dress like a teen-ager." Judy Garland "dresses like a tired clubwoman." Betty Grable wears clothes "too tight and too short...
...indignant Teen-Ager retorted: "Mrs. Scholz's letter in today's paper cost me a licking. Mine come whenever mother reads articles in the paper favoring spanking. Mother takes me to the basement recreation room and uses a piece of rubber tubing-you know where. It hurts terribly...
...anonymous lady (the "Mother of Four Satisfactory Unspanked Children") really went for Mrs. Scholz and the Teen-Ager's mother: "We have been horrified by the beating of helpless persons by the cruel guards in the prison camps of Germany and Japan. Is it not time for us to be deeply shocked by ordinary American parents who use rubber hose or strap on their defenseless children...