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...exclaims Actress Tandy, as MacArthur rolls across the room with the widespread stride of a U.C.L.A. halfback). But with patience and Parker working hand in glove, the boy is soon dolled up in pale blue breeches, reading from the Beatitudes and gazing blankly at a wide-eyed bit of fluff (Broadway's Carol Lynley) from across the road. Fess himself makes sheep's eyes at the preacher's daughter (Joanne...
While her erstwhile friend, General Rafael Trujillo Jr., nonflying chief of the Dominican Republic's air force and army, whooped it up in Los Angeles Harbor with an all-night party or two aboard his one-gunned warship Angelita, fluff-tressed Cinemacaroon Kim Novak gazed dazzle-eyed at a solid, if less spectacular catch: Cancer Researcher Ernest L. Wynder, M.D. (TIME, May 5), who escorted Kim on a tour of Manhattan night life...
Cinemactress Maria (The Brothers Karamazov) Schell, arriving in Manhattan to promote her new movie, exuded a heady mixture of fluff and philosophy. A first-rate actress on screen and off, Maria, 32. parried most of the newsmen's thrusts with ease, sooner or later got her listeners into her own frame of reference. Her greatest vice at the moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace...
...Godfrey (Universal). Farce, like souffle, can't be warmed over. Back in 1936, when this piece of fluff came hot from Hollywood, it was crisp and light with the most expensive ingredients (William Powell and Carole Lombard). But a couple of decades have somehow taken the puff out of the stuff. At second serving it looks, as the French say of second servings, a little senile...
...midst of a toy-poodle vogue. The carefully trimmed bundles of fluff* have been dogs of fashion since the days of Queen Anne. In the U.S. poodles took a long time catching on. Only 50 of them were registered in the American Kennel Club by 1930. Not until the early 1950s did dog lovers in large numbers discover that poodles are as bright and companionable as they are susceptible to ostentatious hairdos. Last year there were 16,691 registered with the A.K.C...