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...much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices of life that it is impossible to dislike her. Among...
...glee into the passionate pursuit of two goals-turning out shows and making enemies. There is no reliable head-count of the showman's enemies, but Merrick has had 20 shows on Broadway since 1954, and 15 of them qualify as hits. No other producer, including Mike Todd, Flo Ziegfeld or the Shuberts, ever approached this record in a similar period of time...
publicity for everyone to think he was in love with all the girls." Flo got very upset about their publicity after they were married in a sudden dash to New Jersey following a Broadway matinee: "Mr. Ziegfeld was furious when he saw that the hanging of four men had pushed our wedding off the front pages." Why had Billie never joined her husband's girlie galas? "My legs were too fat. But he didn't discover that until we were married." France's favorite spinner of adult bedtime stories, Novelist Francoise Sagon, 24 and recently divorced, looked...
...vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit...
Price never forgets the housewife in planning his houses, has introduced countless innovations to save time, labor and space. In his 1960 line of all-aluminum French Regency houses, he has installed a "traffic-flo" bathroom with two entrances to cut down traffic jams...