Word: buxomness
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...divorce is forbidden by Italian Communist doctrine: "Communists, in fact, cannot have two policies, one public and the other personal." This amounted to a charge of deviationism, not only against Longo, but against Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself (who divorced his wife in Russia to take up with his buxom secretary, after first obligingly getting his wife elected to the Senate...
Putting its best hunch forward, the Metropolitan Opera signed Vienna's buxom Soprano Irmgard Seefried this season. Last week she bowed as Susanna, the maid in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and turned out to be the hit of the evening. She bounced around as a properly improper young peasant girl, conniving enthusiastically, clucking her disapproval of other people's peccadilloes, escaping from her own tight jams, seeming to enjoy every minute. Almost from the moment of her entrance, she had the Met audience laughing in delight...
...piano in a brothel, was soon steeped in the smoky atmosphere of the dives of the Barrio de San Miguel-Mexico's Montmartre. The secrets the girls told him in idle hours he phrased in songs. One night, as he broke off playing his new song Rosa, a buxom beauty named Yoland pulled a knife from her garter, slashed his face from mouth to ear, then knelt at his feet shrieking for forgiveness. Soon after, Lara wrote Woman ("You have in your look the passion that fascinates"), a smash hit that lifted him from the brothels to the best...
Berle, Betty Mutton, Edward G. Robinson, Jane Froman, Joe E. Lewis, got up to reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie...
Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...