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Well-turned Aquactress Esther Williams put on a well-cut swimsuit and won coast-to-coast publicity with a denunciation of the midget-size swimsuit: "Why, they come off in the water. If you can't swim in them, what good are they...
...four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota (1927); U. of M.'s law school (1929). Married: in 1929 to Esther Glewwe, his childhood sweetheart. Children: Glen, 12; Kathleen, 6. Church: Baptist. Nickname: "Red" (to his old college mates), "Skipper" (to his close political friends...
There are currently only eight "absolutely safe" cover girls: Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, June Haver and Esther Williams. A male star on the cover-some editors except Alan Ladd-can reduce newsstand sales (about 95% of the total) by as much...
...Esther Williams was busy writing a book, Would You Rather Be a Fish? Her literary method: 'the publishers sent her 200 questions, and she confided the answers to a recorder...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...