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Delegate Kiyoko Miki, 27, the Japanese Diet's glamor girl, is somewhat bucktoothed, but Japanese connoisseurs say she has "something of the siren in her." Explaining her election in a hotly contested Osaka district, the Nippon Times said: "Whatever she lacked in political acumen she made up amply in sex appeal." Last week, Kiyoko was having Dietary troubles: she had fallen in love with a dashing fellow delegate, Kiyoshi Kawani-shi, 28 (heir to the Kawanishi Aircraft fortune). Kawanishi already has a wife, who refuses to divorce him. In the Diet, members proposed Kiyoko's removal on grounds...
...Down. For his thousands of plain followers, Dadswell has his own sort of glamor. Readers who might be sold the Brooklyn Bridge can warm up to the man who confesses that he bought a $5,000 diamond for $25 from a mysterious Mexican, discovered it was a zircon "not worth a buck." He has the reckless savvy of the smart fellow who retires on his earnings (he did in 1926, 1938, 1945), and then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers...
Even more beautiful is the leading lady, France's Viviane Romance, who resembles an alert Linda Darnell and has been treated to a full Hollywood glamor makeup, including false eyelashes...
...never played phonographs into our mikes, but always gave the public genuine acts." But last week, after finding himself out of a job, Ted had changed his mind. Said he: "I'm not losing any dignity as a disc-jockey. At 44, I'm tired of glamor and glory. At CBS I was the highest paid sports announcer in the business, and I only got $27,500. Here, there's no reason why I shouldn't make a quarter of a million a year...
Critic Brown, who normally spends more time on books and Broadway than at the movies, dropped in to see the British-made Brief Encounter. He liked its lack of glamor...