Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing a bouffant off-shoulder gown of pink net, pink gloves trimmed with silver, and a silver-and-rhinestone butterfly, Betty Tyson received more than 600 guests, including Navy Secretary and Mrs. James Forrestal, Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Farley and daughter, Ann...
After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and...
Betty Tyson's debut might be remembered not only as ushering in the new day of peace, but as a scientific milestone as well-just before the guests arrived, the grounds had been liberally sprayed with DDT.
Lieut. Jackie Coogan, 30, Hollywood's onetime "Kid" who grew up to marry Betty Grable (and be divorced by her) was released from the Army after four years' service, mostly with glider troops. Acquired in that time: the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and a Presidential Unit...
Incendiary Blonde (Paramount) purports to record the life and raucous times of the late Texas Guinan (most famous of nightclub hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of...