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...self-styled "weekly for everybody" folded in 1950 after a quarter-century of high circulation but low profits. Peddled door-to-door by a small army of kids coveting catchers' mitts, Liberty leaned hard on such come-ons as Mahatma Gandhi's "My Sex Life," Greta Garbo's "Why I Will Not Marry," Al Capone's "How I Would Run This Country" and Shirley Temple's "My New Year's Resolutions." But it turned a profit only in the postwar boom years of 1945 and 1946 and sank soon afterward, the victim of advertising...
...generally, to convey the reticence of a man denounced as tyrant but more suited for his private roles as art collector and cher papa. Harris, on the other hand, was put in the unfortunate quandary of acting out destinies both historically inaccurate and dramatically unconvincing. If I were discussing Garbo's Queen Christina, the license so common in historical romance could be admitted to extenuate glaring inaccuracies in terms of fact. But anyone who sits through two and a half hours of Cromwell is really entitled to know that Cromwell was not one of the Five Members Charles tried...
...remarkably low. A 600-ring vest costs $60, a 1,000-ring stole goes for $100 and a 2,800-ring maxicoat sells for $350. The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50. At those prices, the pop-tops have become the sensation among Puerto Rico's livelier...
...collections calculated to capture, if not the same bulk of orders from U.S. buyers, at least the fancy of women everywhere. Men might not be so enraptured: hems left not a hint of calf exposed, let alone knee. But the overall look was exotic and eclectic, a mixture of Garbo's Anna Karenina and Clyde's Bonnie, the aura of a Russian princess and the threat of a tommy...
...Garbo knew what she was doing when she painted that line above her eyelid," he said. "And Mac West! I saw her at a party a while ago. She came up to me and said. 'Mr. Crowley,"-and here he imitated Miss West-"'Honey-I wrote your play forty years ago. It was called Drag and it closed after one performance in Pat terson. New Jersey...