Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical novel that is a tremendous bestseller...
...write a book about yourself in the twentieth century-like you wrote one about yourself in the eighteenth?" By page 352, Shireen has slipped some paper into a typewriter and made a start. If Shireen has sense enough to make her central character a beautiful doll named Kathleen Winsor, it should be a bestseller...
...Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know the secret) and Magic Light Bulbs (mysteriously lights while held in your hand...
March of Science. In Manhattan, a businessman returning from a trip to Europe reported that a French perfume company had agreed to manufacture an essence which, blended into a doll's skin, would make it smell "like a baby...
...rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled off just wonderfully...