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Right after lunch is the best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair...
...section of the press in both countries chose to fasten on the only exception, Bob Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...colonel (he jumped with paratroops into France) and ex-newsman (chief editorial writer of the New York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
Alben Berkley was going to spend his Christmas with the U.S. garrison in Berlin, as co-star of a cold-war U.S.O. troupe that included Bob Hope, Jinx Falkenburg, Irving Berlin, Air Secretary Stuart Symington, and half a dozen Rockettes. A Congressman for 35 years, Vice President-elect for eight weeks, Barkley was living up to his new responsibilities: "My time just isn't my own any more...
Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 29, ex-model and cinemactress (Cover Girl), now chatty hostess of NBC's evening interview Tex and Jinx, and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 37, Tex and Jinx's drawling host: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kevin. Weight...