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Black-bearded, with a gold earring in his pierced right ear and gold bangles jangling at his wrists, the man who called himself Ronald Chesney looked every inch the pirate he claimed to be. He habitually arrayed his strapping, 6-ft. 1-in. frame in the generously sweeping gestures of the quarterdeck, and boasted homerically of his vast appetites for food, drink and women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing...
...this makes a little masterpiece of Judy's big seduction scene, in which she drifts dazedly down the old millstream of her instincts (absentmindedly slipping off her shoes and undoing an earring), right to the crucial point when she remembers that Lawford had billed her as "the average American girl," who shouldn't be doing such things. Nevertheless, Judy is so good at this one role that it would be interesting to see her play another...
Rarely since her Coronation has Britain's Queen Elizabeth been photographed without earrings. Thanks to the quickness of English women to copy the Queen, Britain's jewelers, long pinched by heavy excise tax (now 75%), are enjoying a new flush of prosperity. Sales of London's Cohn & Rosenberger. Ltd., one of Britain's largest earring manufacturers, have soared about 400% this year. So widespread is the earring fad that in Birmingham, center of the trade, some factories have fallen nine months behind demand, and one has stopped making everything else to catch...
...first, stud and hoop earrings were the fashion; now it is pendants. Manufacturers are taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing...
...Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy...