Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAIRFIELD, CONN. Candlewood Play house. Rodgers and Hart's caddish antihero, Pal Joey, picks up a girl as easily as he orders a drink. Arlene Francis plays the rich lady who picks...
...Gargan is used by Kennedy largely as companion for carrying out miscellaneous chores?making reservations, ordering food, emptying glasses and drawing baths. Though under no legal compulsion to do so, the two men could reasonably be expected to have called the police immediately if they were thinking of the girl. Not only would Mary Jo's body have been recovered faster, but her life might conceivably have been saved. Though only the slimmest of possibilities existed, there is a chance that an air bubble might have remained for a brief time within the submerged vehicle, giving the girl moments...
...Kopechne. Then it might have amused her, for she was often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only Mary Jo, in an office full of more chic, sleek numbers, knew...
...friends thought that Mary Jo, at 28, was somewhat naive in social relationships. She was engagingly wholesome, did not smoke and rarely drank. Whenever she traveled, she telephoned her parents to tell them where she was. Says former R.F.K. Aide Wendell Pigman, "She was the kind of girl who almost scowled at hearing a dirty word...
Despite all the frantic script doctoring and transplants, Universal claims that shooting is about on schedule. Lana and the old sweater-girl figure are holding up pretty well for her years (49). She is getting along swimmingly with Producer du jour Doniger, who himself professes to be having "desperate fun" with the cast and show. "It is like having a cocktail party on the wing of an airplane." Lana does make her daily 5:45 a.m. calls, and has difficulty only in getting a fix on her unraveling character. "There have been so many story versions that I am still...