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...frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes me long for the good old days when Fanny was a girl's name." Now almost 60, grey at the temples, Delaney...
Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected...
...give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer, who had once called Secessionists "bad men and traitors...
...Minister of Public Culture Oboardo Dino Alfieri. One of the founders of Fascism, a friend of Mussolini since World War I, smoothie, trouble shooter, woman-charmer (Italians say he could make an Englishwoman feel beautiful and an Ethiopian feel important), he consistently boosted the Axis in the Italian press-until the war began...
Marriage revealed. Isa Miranda (real name: Ines Sampietro), 25, blonde Italian cinema charmer, favored by Mussolini; and Alfredo Guarini, 38, her business manager and adviser; on July 1, in Tucson, Ariz...