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...Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...
Louise Macy Hopkins, pretty wife of Harry L. Hopkins ("American women are pretty, but Russian women are really beautiful"), reporting in Paris her own impressions of Russia during her Moscow visit with Harry, called Joseph Stalin "a complete charmer as soon as you get to know...
Carousel (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by the Theatre Guild). All Oklahoma's horses and all Oklahoma's men have put another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...
...Immortal Charmer. Leonardo's life, with its lustrous and peculiar glints through the obscurities of history, will always have a fascination comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
Lieut. Colonel Serge Obolensky, top-ranking extraman of Manhattan, won a tribute from the World-Telegram's society editor. She reported that the durable charmer, "famed for his graceful waltzing, wasn't handicapped in the slightest by his heavy paratroop boots when he twirled around the St. Regis Roof the other evening...