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...Pretty" numbers like Blue Bayou and a silhouetted ballet by Dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine aim for, and perfectly achieve, the qualities of dime-store and gift-shoppe art. As such they have great skill and a certain naive charm; but only genuine lovers of that kind of art can genuinely enjoy them. More likely to please everybody...
Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...
...earned plenty as an amateur. You see poor boys come up without a dime, and in two or three years they are driving around from one tournament to another in big automobiles, with their pockets full of money. Tournament committees make no bones about paying . . . from $200 up for a tournament-that's over and above expenses...
Barbara Hutton, whose first was Prince Alexis Mdivani, whose second was Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and whose third was Gary Grant, swore rather faintly that she was swearing off. The wheat-blond, Ry-Krisp-thin dime-store heiress told the Hearst press: "I'm not going to get married again as long as I live. I hope...
...buffalo hunter in his youth, but the rest of the "Buffalo Bill" legend sprang straight from the brain of a raffish scribbler known as Ned Buntline. Astounded by Cody's good looks, wonderful lies and infinite capacity for firewater, Buntline immortalized him in a series of hair-raising dime novels...