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THESE THREE money-making films are all preoccupied with being up to date. Their self-conscious and facetious timeliness emphasizes the latest strategy of commercial cinema: the presentation of a debonair, or at least charming, independent as the modern woman, followed by a gradual undermining of her independence. These films free their female leads from a few minor prejudices only to shove them back into still deeper caves of male domination...
...onetime trumpeter in East Coast society bands, Monroe formed his own group in 1940 and during the next decade combined a regular radio show (Camel Caravan) with as many as 200 one-night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock 'n' roll, he abandoned the big bands for smaller nightclub combos catering to quieter audiences...
Married. Charles Njonjo, 52, Kenya's debonair Attorney General; and Margaret Bryson, 34, daughter of white Christian missionaries and a supervisor of French instruction for Kenya's Ministry of Education; both for the first time; in Nairobi...
PROFILE: Fussy. A finicky eater. An incisive mind. Handsome, Debonair. A forceful and articulate defender for the wild kingdom. His understanding of the natural and man-made laws concerning animals will lead others to a better appreciation of an animal's beauty and its crucial role in the balance of nature. Extremely smart, Quick reactions. Football MVP. Also lettered in baseball. Won Spanish award. Gutsy. Especially effective on rollout, but a good dropback passer...
BRENDAN GILL describes Porter's life and times in the introduction to George Kimball's anthology Cole (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: more money than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country...