Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies nude on a strip of crumpled red velvet. Uneasy studio executives begged her last January to deny the story. But Marilyn believes in doing what comes naturally. She admitted she posed for the picture back in 1949 to pay her overdue rent. Soon she was wading in more fan letters than ever. Asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph, Marilyn, her blue eyes wide, purred: "I had'the radio...
...Hollywood, Cinemactress Betty Grable talked to a London Daily Mirror columnist about a trend which was giving her some concern. Said she: "The eyes of the film fan world have switched up the feminine form . . . and I just can't compete. I've always been able to stand on my own legs, but there are lots of women with bustlines nature didn't provide. Bust building and decorating is shoving legs out of business, so I'm mighty glad I've got Big Noise [a promising young colt], a dozen horses and Harry James...
...behind War and Peace, but well ahead of the Summa Theologica-is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From now on, procrastinators will have to find fresh excuses: Gibbon has been streamlined. Dero Saunders, one of the editors of FORTUNE and an old Gibbon fan, has given Decline and Fall a close trim, from 1,400,000 to 200,000 words, without scalping it of all meaning...
...record (old record: 149.95 miles per gallon) was set in a 1924 four-cylinder Chevrolet. But the car was completely rebuilt. The compression ratio was stepped up from the normal 6-1 to 10-1, the fan belt taken off (to save the power required to turn it), the six-ply tires pumped up to a pressure of 110 lbs. to cut down friction...
Almost as surprising was the performance of a 1951 Nash Rambler, winner among ordinary stock cars. Driven by Mr. & Mrs. M. V. Reedy, the Rambler-whose fan belt and generator were disconnected, radiator grille blocked off, tires pumped up to 50 lbs.-averaged 74.48 miles per gallon. One consolation for run-of-the-road drivers: a car so altered can not be driven...